If you play something well, I don't care what it is. I mean, I don't play an electric [violin] - I tried. It's actually interesting..

So many things can drive you mad as a child, not only music..

I always consider myself lucky that I can actually cry listening to some music..

I love to work with young kids..

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 v….

I do three things. I do teaching, I do conducting and I do playing. And each one of those sort of helps the other..

Don't play the way it goes. Play the way it is. And the way it is every time you play it, it's slightly different. Look for something. So that's the ….

Preparing for a future in music is an expensive proposition..

There is nothing like a fine Italian sound..

Nothing is better for my playing than teaching because when you teach, you have to think and you have to listen what other people do. And then all of….

I don't know if it's ever happened to you, but it's one of my funniest and saddest experiences, when you go into a hotel, and they have an accessible….

Child prodigy is a curse because you've got all those terrible possibilities..

The Violin of my dreams. If you wanna play a pianissimo that is almost inaudible and yet it carries through a hall that seats 3,000 people, there's y….

There are people who are uncanny, who are finished products at a young age. I wasn't, thank God..

When you talk about a million bucks, if you think about it very carefully, it's not that much money, if you start to divide it. You have to figure ou….

A lot of society tries to put people with disabilities into one cube, and when you think about it, many, many people have different types of disabili….

Not many people like it when they get criticism. Of course, if you have someone who does tell you and you do have a rapport, that's great. But don't ….

For people who are really talented, what you don't say becomes extremely important. You have to judge what to say and what to leave alone so you can ….

I find personally that when I go to a place where I can't get in, I feel hostility from whatever it is, a hotel, a shop, a market, a street corner wh….

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

Beethoven concertos ... Tchaicovsky concertos ... with a lot of these wonderful masterpieces there's always something wonderful to find ... there's a….