Sometimes it is the artist's task to find out how much music you can still make with what you have left.

One of the most important elements in teaching, conducting, and performing, all three, is listening.

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.

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

To befoul the unholy alliance between corrupt business & corrupt politics is the first task of the statesmanship of the day.

Behind this mask there is more than just flesh. Beneath this mask there is an idea... and ideas are bulletproof.

We are what we must And not what we would be. I know that one hour Assures not another. The will and the power Are diverse.

WAKING AT NIGHT The blue river is grey at morning and evening. There is twilight at dawn and dusk. I lie in the dark wondering if this quiet in me now is a beginning or an end.

There are many people of color who are very talented.

I have lots of friends. I mix with all sorts of people, of all generations.

I'd love to go out on a Saturday night with my friends and watch a movie, but that happens really like once a year or a couple of times.

Taking delight in random encounters that come our way is a wonderful reminder that God is in control.

All animals are minor variations on a very particular theme.

good morning sinners. vampiric red bull intake in pub smoking compound commenced. day of heavy brain-fingering ahead.