Israeli - Musician | August 31, 1945 -
My message is that giving is very important. Giving is a Jewish thing, and I like to talk about that. There's nothing more important, personally, for anybody than being able to give.
Itzhak Perlman
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I say to string players in small chamber orchestras, 'it's always easy to become a passenger on the journey in sound, just adding volume to the whole. But if you play in an individual way, it makes the difference between good and great sound in an orchestra.'
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The 'Mozart Symphony No. 27' is an early composition. I find it charming.
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I am playing the violin, that's all I know, nothing else, no education, no nothing. You just practice every day.
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If you put four different people on a podium conducting the same downbeat, you get four different sounds. It's a little mysterious and fascinating. There's so much you can do with motions and body movements besides giving accurate beats.
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Everybody's saying, you know, 'You're so heroic and so on despite of the polio that you had and so on.' Look, I had polio when I was four. So when you're four years old, you know, you get used to things very, very quickly.
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So many things can drive you mad as a child, not only music.
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I feel that you always pay when you are a child.
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I listen to kids play a lot.
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There are people who are uncanny, who are finished products at a young age. I wasn't, thank God.
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Competition can be the most nerve-racking experience. Some people just thrive on it.
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In Paris they have special wheelchairs that go through every doorway. They don't change the doorways, they change the wheelchairs. To hell with the people! If someone weighs a couple more pounds, that's it!
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