I can actually see the sound in my head. I can actually see it... But each sound is different so this one has that sparkle, there is a sparkle to the sound.

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 rely too much on the people we share our lives with. We hold them responsible for things they are not even aware of. We start blaming them.

Should we stop celebrating the Columbus day - the day when the first illegal immigrants entered America?

Upright simplicity is the deepest wisdom, and perverse craft the merest shallowness.

Work is changing for men as much as it is for women.

Walking my dogs, playing with my kids - all of that is really good stuff to keep me centered.

Her silent course advance With inoffensive pace, that spinning sleeps On her soft axle.

I look for the character to be something interesting, the script to have a good story and be original, and a director that I admire.

Conviction is the conscience of the mind.

Some people think that meditation takes time away from physical accomplishment. Taken to extremes, of course, that's true. Most people, however, find that meditation creates more time than it takes.

All ancient history was written with a moral object; the ethical interest predominates almost to the exclusion of all others.