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Itzhak Perlman
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Itzhak Perlman
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: August 31
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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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One must always practice slowly. If you learn something slowly, you forget it slowly.
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Perhaps our task in this shaky, fast-changing, bewildering world in which we live is to make music, at first with all that we have, and then, when that is no longer possible, to make music with what we have left.
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I feel that you always pay when you are a child.
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Everybody has a different kind of talent and a different timetable as to when they develop.
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I couldn't only do one thing--I don't want the personal hell of oneness.
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Life is not as easy as it could be for a person with a disability.
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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 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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For every child prodigy that you know about, at least 50 potential ones have burned out before you even heard about them.
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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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I'm just a one-instrument player. I have been known to play a blender, but I basically play - just play the violin.
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I listen to kids play a lot.
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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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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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Just imagine yourself in a wheelchair. Go through the building. If there's a place you can't go in, it's not accessible.
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I look at raising funds for The Perlman Music Program as a challenge and as a way to provide opportunities for people who care about the future of classical music.
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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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The thing is that what you try to do when you play is you try to play not below a certain level. In other words, it can be a special day where it would be phenomenal, but if it's not below a certain level, that's the goal. You know, that's what you want to do. That's why you practice and so on.
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Sometimes you get from the mouth of kids wonderful things.
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