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Preparing for a future in music is an expensive proposition.

Itzhak Perlman

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Itzhak Perlman
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: August 31
Conductor
Professor
Violinist
Yafo
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Preparing
Expensive
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When you play a concerto with a small orchestra, you don't feel it is as important as Carnegie Hall. You try to work out all the little problems. Once that's all done, trust comes in.
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I do three things. I do teaching, I do conducting and I do playing. And each one of those sort of helps the other.
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I don't feel that the conductor has real power. The orchestra has the power, and every member of it knows instantaneously if you're just beating time.
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I love to work with young kids.
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One of the great challenges is to know when things are not right.
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Nothing is better for my playing than teaching because when you teach, you have to think and you have to listen what other people do. And then all of a sudden, you play yourself and then you say, my goodness, I don't need a teacher. I'm my own teacher. Then I can react to what I'm doing immediately. It really improves.
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Sometimes you get from the mouth of kids wonderful things.
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This machine, the wheelchair, I can go all over the place, but you need a place without stairs to get in.
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Believe me, I've had interviews where the person says, So when did you start and why? What about your parents? I say to them, Please, have you heard of the word Google?
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I don't walk on stage unless I'm playing with a orchestra. But when I play a recital, I'm sort of on a scooter, and I just scoot very quickly on stage, and they're saying, wow, look at this. He's so fast.
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For people who are really talented, what you don't say becomes extremely important. You have to judge what to say and what to leave alone so you can let the talent develop.
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I feel that you always pay when you are a child.
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I can actually see the sound in my head. I can actually see it... But each sound is different so this one has that sparkle, there is a sparkle to the sound.
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Every person with a disability has a slightly different kind of disability. Not everybody has the same problems. Usually the wheelchairs are the wheelchairs. It's the same height and so on. It's a problem.
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I couldn't only do one thing--I don't want the personal hell of oneness.
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