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 …

- Itzhak Perlman

The most important thing to do is really listen.

- Itzhak Perlman

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

- Itzhak Perlman

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

- Itzhak Perlman

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…

- Itzhak Perlman

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

- Itzhak Perlman

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

- Itzhak Perlman

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

- Itzhak Perlman

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

- Itzhak Perlman