The most important thing to do is really listen.

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.

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.

A new grace for a new life is what we need in the coming year.

You shouldn’t have to pretend to be as excited as I am just to make me happy. If it comes to that, you shouldn’t have to pretend to be anything around me. Friends should be real with each other

Associations must evolve if they are to survive into the future.

Every murderer is probably somebody's old friend.

Don't go fighting against the Spring.

Taxes are the chief business of a conqueror of the world.

I thank to all the shadows and all the darknesses of my life; it is owing to them that I now love the light much more than ever before!

A mad who knows that he is mad is not fully mad!

From the first day I joined that family, nothing could be done naturally any more.

I had done this. I had pulled my life apart. I would never, ever be safe again.