I do three things. I do teaching, I do conducting and I do playing. And each one of those sort of helps the other.

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.

If we don't value the people who inspire us (and money is one mark of that) then what kind of culture are we building?

You should always say exactly what you think directly to people all the time.

When you actually make a new friend, and you make music and laugh really hard together, that can give you a lot of confidence and nourishment and encouragement.

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Everyone wants to learn the same thing from painful situations: how to avoid repeating them.

But some love not the method of your first; Romance they count it, throw't away as dust; If I should meet with such, what should I say; Must I slight them as they slight me, or nay

I guess you could say I'm cautious, or a coward.

Schools should serve breakfast, lunch and an afternoon snack. No sugared drinks, no fast type food.

We must satisfy our customers.

It's easy to get four days a week of training in and I don't spend more than 55-60 minutes in the gym.