141 Quotes by Itzhak Perlman

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

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

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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?'

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    The thing about talent is that it comes at different ages, sometimes at a very early age. That's when I find it to be the most challenging.

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    An amazing gift in a young child is, in some ways, an abnormality.

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    A talented child will have a schedule that is horrendous. You get up and practice, go to school, practice some more, eat dinner, and then you have homework.

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