I listen to kids play a lot.

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.

Invest in your purpose and land of promise

Every flower blooms from the face of impossibility with a hope to make this world beautiful.

There is no little sin, because no little God to sin against.

I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.

My best hostess tip is to have good food and really good music!

When there is state there can be no freedom, but when there is freedom there will be no state.

Come on, man, I got a full beard!

Discipline yourself to find something positive in every situation every day. You attract positivity when you are positive within.

It's like the smarter you are, the more things can scare you.