Child prodigy is a curse because you've got all those terrible possibilities.

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.

Lose control once in a while, and your emotions will make your strong. Keep your heart open, and they’ll make you invincible.

Humor is a social lubricant that helps us get over some of the bad spots.

We will create a civilization of the Mind in Cyberspace. May it be more humane and fair than the world your governments have made before.

I felt like I had proof that not all days are the same length, not all time has the same weight. Proof that there are worlds and worlds and worlds on top of worlds, if you want them to be there.

Publicity, publicity, PUBLICITY is the greatest moral factor and force in our public life.

Edgar found a way to get the ball where nobody was standing.

When we serve the great, they are our destiny.

Women have come a long way, but it never fails to sadden me when I see younger women saying we have to overcome some obstacles.

Whistling tunes we're kissing baboons in the jungle.

I'm a Sagittarius, and one of our major qualities is that we're blindly optimistic.