One must always practice slowly. If you learn something slowly, you forget it slowly..

In difficult times, people just like to hear music. They like to be moved by what they hear. And music speaks different languages..

One of the most important elements in teaching, conducting, and performing, all three, is listening..

Sometimes it is the artist's task to find out how much music you can still make with what you have left..

One of the great challenges is to know when things are not right..

The most important thing to do is really listen..

Every musical phrase has a purpose. It's like talking. If you talk with a particular purpose, people listen to you, but if you just recite, it's not ….

Never miss an opportunity to teach; when you teach others, you teach yourself..

Perhaps our task in this shaky, fast-changing, bewildering world in which we live is to make music, at first with all that we have, and then, when th….

The thing is that what you try to do when you play is you try to play not below a certain level. In other words, it can be a special day where it wou….

You decide to be a musician, you have to put in the time..

Same thing with harmonies. If you hear something that harmonically is interesting, express it. So that's what I'm saying about talking the music rath….

I don't walk on stage unless I'm playing with a orchestra. But when I play a recital, I'm sort of on a scooter, and I just scoot very quickly on stag….

I listen to kids play a lot..

That makes classical music work, the ability to improvise..

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. Onc….

A sponge has that much absorbent capability and after a while you can pour water over it and nothing stays..

This young wine may have a lot of tannins now, but in five or 10 years it is going to be spectacular, despite the fact that right now it tastes like ….

I'm just a one-instrument player. I have been known to play a blender, but I basically play - just play the violin..

Just imagine yourself in a wheelchair. Go through the building. If there's a place you can't go in, it's not accessible..

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 hea….