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Itzhak Perlman Quotes

Israeli - Musician | August 31, 1945 -

When I came to the United States, I appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show as a 13-year-old, and I played a Mendelssohn Concerto, and it sounded like a talented 13-year-old with a lot of promise. But it did not sound like a finished product.

Product Sound United Show Promise

My oldest daughter is a pianist; she plays concerts. We play together, also.

Daughter Together Play She Concerts

When you live in a small country such as Israel, the dream of any musician is to go abroad.

Live Small You Dream Country Go

A lot of people ask me, 'What is your goal now that you have done everything?' And I always say that my goal is to not be bored by what I do. The only way that I cannot be bored by what I do is if I play something and it's all new to me.

People Me You Goal Play New

I can tell you that many soloists probably wish they could sit.

Wish You I Can Tell Sit Many

I think that music has to do with what kind of passion do you have.

Music Passion Think You Kind

I'm an acoustical person.

I have just one fiddle. It works, and that's it. It has been an old friend.

Friend Old Been Just One Just Works

Television will always err on the side of making something not quite as classy as it could be.

Television Classy Will Always Side

To bring a large audience to a piece of serious music and make it accessible does not mean reducing it in any way. And I've learned that if something is good, even if it is a little difficult, people will get that it is good.

Good Music People Serious Way Mean

I've been lucky to conduct the very best orchestras in the world: New York, San Francisco, Chicago, Berlin, the London Philharmonic.

Best New York World New Chicago

If you can read, then you can recite Shakespeare. But that's not acting.

You Acting Read Shakespeare Then

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