If you play something well, I don't care what it is. I mean, I don't play an electric [violin] - I tried. It's actually interesting.

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.

A piano might fall on your head, he said, but it also might not. And in the meantime you never know. Something nice might happen.

C" is for colonies Rightly we boastthat of all the great nationsGreat Britain has most!

I would really love to do a musical, I don't know in what capacity but something funny.

Men must stop being jealous of their power and generously allow freedom and responsibility to others. The reward is harmonious families and society.

It is the child of avarice, the brother of iniquity, and the father of mischief.

A one sentence definition of mythology? Mythology is what we call someone else's religion.

I would say the consumer Internet companies - in a lot of ways, if you go inside the consumer Internet companies and you see how they run, it's how all their businesses are going to run.

Lives, like money, are spent. What are you buying with yours?

Soundbite and slogan, strapline and headline, at every turn we meet hyperbole. The soaring inflation of the English language is more urgently in need of control than the economic variety.