Isaac Stern Quotes

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

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

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.

There are more bad musicians than there is bad music.

Music is like making love: either all or nothing.

When you believe in something, you can move mountains.

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

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

A man possesses talent; genius possesses the man.

A conductor has to know how to translate music into a communicative force that makes the listener want to hear what he has to say.

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

Playing a concerto with Zubin is like being surrounded by a well-loved, cashmere-lined silk glove.

I have known Ori Kam for several years and have always regarded him as an extraordinarily talented young mucisian.