One must always practice slowly. If you learn something slowly, you forget it slowly.

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.

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.

For every child prodigy that you know about, at least 50 potential ones have burned out before you even heard about them.

We hurt ourselves not by what we ask for, but what we settle for.

Mellow doesn't always make for a good story, but it makes for a good life.

Art keeps one young, I think, because it keeps one perpetually a beginner, perpetually a child.

For a day, just for one day, talk about that which disturbs no one and bring some peace into those beautiful eyes.

A field of water betrays the spirit that is in the air. It is continually receiving new life and motion from above. It is intermediate in its nature between land and sky.

Execute their airy purposes.

The problem is that this speeded-up life and stress in America causes us to cut off our feelings, so we are out of touch with our reality.

You want to be a corporate success; you want to be an entrepreneurial success. That's the beginnings of the feminist movement which sought to emulate men.

Of course for a Colombian girl it was always impossible to even imagine becoming an international popstar, but my dream became reality.

I thought you could play ... You've got nothing. Where's the big hair? I brought my scissors today so I could cut the hair. You've got nothing.