An amazing gift in a young child is, in some ways, an abnormality.

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

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

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

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

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 violin at all.

The most important thing to do is really listen.

Ask many of us who are disabled what we would like in life and you would be surprised how few would say, 'Not to be disabled.' We accept our limitations.

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

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 as meaningful.

When you play a concerto with a small orchestra, you don't feel it is as important as Carnegie Hall. You try to work out all the little problems. Once that's all done, trust comes in.

A simple dream, a simple thoughtCan generate actions to shake the world.

One definition of success is achieving what your haters don't want you to achieve. Them wanting you not to achieve it means it's worth a lot.

You may say, But wasn't this the Sixties? Yes, but only for some people, only in certain parts of the country.

I tried each thing, only some were immortal and free.

The whole point of me doing a Christmas record and what I centered it around was the song 'Christmas with You' from the point-of-view of the soldiers in Iraq.

Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering.

Many people are worried about my mental health. But as I've said many times, we're stronger than we think we are.

The resurrection and the judgement will demonstrate before all worlds who won and who lost. We can wait!

No one was creating and I always wanted to be created on.

The only way to kill death is through photography.