141 Quotes by Itzhak Perlman

As for minimalism, I don't care, don't care, don't care to repeat myself, repeat myself.

The danger in playing a piece over and over again lies in getting stuck in a rut where you don't ask questions anymore and you always play it the same way.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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