141 Quotes by Itzhak Perlman

This has been my vocation to make music of what remains.

For every child prodigy that you know about, at least 50 potential ones have burned out before you even heard about them.

Another thing that I don't like to do is show too much how it goes. I do it once in a blue moon. Sometimes there are lessons when I don't pick up a violin at all.

I am playing the violin, that's all I know, nothing else, no education, no nothing. You just practice every day.

The most important thing to do is really listen.

Any gifted child can potentially get in real trouble because of the way they are handled.

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.

That makes classical music work, the ability to improvise.

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.