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Itzhak Perlman
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Itzhak Perlman
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: August 31
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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.
Itzhak Perlman
This machine, the wheelchair, I can go all over the place, but you need a place without stairs to get in.
Itzhak Perlman
One must always practice slowly. If you learn something slowly, you forget it slowly.
Itzhak Perlman
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?
Itzhak Perlman
I listen to kids play a lot.
Itzhak Perlman
I'm now doing three things: concerts, conducting, and teaching, and they each support each other. I learn to see things from different perspectives and listen with different ears. The most important thing that you need to do is really listen.
Itzhak Perlman
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.
Itzhak Perlman
Preparing for a future in music is an expensive proposition.
Itzhak Perlman
Life is not as easy as it could be for a person with a disability.
Itzhak Perlman
I'm just a one-instrument player. I have been known to play a blender, but I basically play - just play the violin.
Itzhak Perlman
I feel that you always pay when you are a child.
Itzhak Perlman
I always say separate your abilities from your disabilities. You know, if I could play the violin, I don't have to play it standing up. I can play it sitting down and so on.
Itzhak Perlman
Just imagine yourself in a wheelchair. Go through the building. If there's a place you can't go in, it's not accessible.
Itzhak Perlman
The Violin of my dreams. If you wanna play a pianissimo that is almost inaudible and yet it carries through a hall that seats 3,000 people, there's your Strad.
Itzhak Perlman
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.
Itzhak Perlman
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.
Itzhak Perlman
You decide to be a musician, you have to put in the time.
Itzhak Perlman
A Century of Wisdom is universal and will enrich readers for generations to come.
Itzhak Perlman
I love to work with young kids.
Itzhak Perlman
Child prodigy is a curse because you've got all those terrible possibilities.
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