I can't walk very well, but I'm not onstage to do walking. I'm on the stage to play.

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.

Leaders rule hearts, not people.

The purpose of life is to live, learn, and love.

I have never been drunk but I've often been overserved.

Making great strides without a well-defined purpose will not bring positive results.

Filmmaking, at the end of the day, is a business and a balance must be struck between that and emotional ties.

Engagement is not appeasement. Engagement is not surrender.

But I have been in some very beautiful churches, then I've looked outside and seen people starving to death.

Love prides itself not only in the one who loves, but also in the beloved.

Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?

You can't be grateful for something you feel entitled to.