I am playing the violin, that's all I know, nothing else, no education, no nothing. You just practice every day.

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.

We cause havoc to our society when we only preach miracles.

To say that life is nothing but a property of certain peculiar combinations of atoms is like saying that Shakespeare's Hamlet is nothing but a property of a peculiar combination of letters.

I love it when they doubt me and I can prove them wrong. I proved them wrong against Peterson. I did it again against Acosta. I did it with Antillon and I did it with Alvarado. So I'll be ready.

Faith is reason at rest in God.

When you write things down, you commit to doing them. If you simply tell me what you want to do, there is really no commitment to getting it done.

All the music you've ever heard in your life is somewhere in your head. I don't reject that, I use it.

I am an open book, literally. I don't mind if people know way too much about me.

I am blessed beyond my fondest dreams.

If you honestly believe that," said Thorne, stowing the gun again, "then you really don't recognize true value when you see it.

Changes don't happen in the world by playing it safe, taking risks is the way to change the world.