I don't feel that the conductor has real power. The orchestra has the power, and every member of it knows instantaneously if you're just beating time.

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.

I'm all alone, but I'm not lonely.

Mom flipped through the magazines like the pages needed to be slapped.

Every time you open your mouth you let men look into your mind.

Just because something causes you to have a feeling of aesthetic beauty does not make it a work of art.

I think reading the novels definitely was a good source for me to study from.

Madison lived in his head and public speaking did not come naturally to him.

I DON'T smoke anymore, except on National No Smoking Day as a protest against those who want to control our lives.

There is no worse sickness for the soul, o you who are proud, than this pretense of perfection.

I'll still run him on the ice tomorrow.

Batista does look pretty mad.