In difficult times, people just like to hear music. They like to be moved by what they hear. And music speaks different languages.
Itzhak PerlmanRead
I say to string players in small chamber orchestras, 'it's always easy to become a passenger on the journey in sound, just adding volume to the whole. But if you play in an individual way, it makes the difference between good and great sound in an orchestra.'
Interpretation
What this quote means
Playing individually and with creativity elevates the overall sound of a group.
This quote by Itzhak Perlman emphasizes the importance of individual expression within a collective musical setting. He urges string players in orchestras to avoid merely blending in by increasing their volume, and instead encourages them to bring their unique interpretations and artistry to the music, which can transform a good performance into a great one.
Themes
IndividualityExpressionOrchestraMusicCreativity
In practice
Example use cases
A music teacher might use this quote to inspire students to find their unique sound.
More from Itzhak Perlman
All quotes βSometimes it is the artist's task to find out how much music you can still make with what you have left.
Itzhak PerlmanRead
For every child prodigy that you know about, at least 50 potential ones have burned out before you even heard about them.
Itzhak PerlmanRead
Whenever I play recitals, the part where I talk about music and my experiences of music, audiences always like it. They feel more involved with an artist who talks to them. It's a nice experience for me as well.
Itzhak PerlmanRead
I am playing the violin, that's all I know, nothing else, no education, no nothing. You just practice every day.
Itzhak PerlmanRead
Israel is the country of my birth. When I come here, I feel I'm coming home.
Itzhak PerlmanRead
Similar quotes
If you wanna make money in music, you're better off being on the business end of it a lot of the time. And also as a musician, if you do make money, it means you had to bite and scratch and kick the whole way to not get ripped off, because at every corner, there's somebody there waiting to trip you up and take a bigger chunk.
Chris CornellRead
What I like about pop music, and why I'm still attracted to it, is that in the end it becomes our folk music.
BonoRead
The cutthroat avenues of rock 'n' roll, I am fed up with. I don't want anything to do with it.
Neil YoungRead
If they played more blues, people would just get it - they try to hold it back but just about can't hold it back now because the blues is really going.
John Lee HookerRead
Hell, nobody knows where jazz is going to go. There may be a kid right now in Chitlin Switch, Georgia, who is going to come along and upset everybody.
Quincy JonesRead
I think that American music, for me, it's a synthesis of a lot of different things. But for me growing up in North Carolina, the stuff that I was listening to, the things that I was hearing, it was all about Black music, about soul music.
James TaylorRead