New York is the dirtiest, largest, ugliest, broken-down city in the world-but it's the only one.

- Isaac Stern

Mozart's music is like an X-ray of your soul - it shows what is there, and what isn't.

- Isaac Stern

It is only through failure and through experiment that we learn and grow.

- Isaac Stern

When you believe in something, you can move mountains.

- Isaac Stern

Music is not an acquired culture... it is an active part of life.

- Isaac Stern

Music is like making love: either all or nothing.

- Isaac Stern

Music is the thousandth of a millisecond between one note and another; how you get from one to the other-that's where the music is.

- Isaac Stern

The greatest wealth of this nation is not only the mergers of giant corporations or the possibility of further globalization of the infrastructure of…

- Isaac Stern

Everywhere in the world, music enhances a hall, with one exception: Carnegie Hall enhances the music.

- Isaac Stern