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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?
Itzhak Perlman
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Itzhak Perlman
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: August 31
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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 listen to kids play a lot.
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There is nothing like a fine Italian sound.
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The most important thing to do is really listen.
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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.
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Sometimes you get from the mouth of kids wonderful things.
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You decide to be a musician, you have to put in the time.
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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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One must always practice slowly. If you learn something slowly, you forget it slowly.
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One of the great challenges is to know when things are not right.
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I couldn't only do one thing--I don't want the personal hell of oneness.
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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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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 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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Everybody has a different kind of talent and a different timetable as to when they develop.
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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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