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“Never miss an opportunity to teach; when you teach others, you teach yourself.”
-- Itzhak Perlman
#Opportunity #Missing #Teach
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“The Violin of my dreams. If you wanna play a pianissimo that is almost inaudible and yet it carries through a hall that seats 3,000 people, there's your Strad.”
-- Itzhak Perlman
#Dream #Play #People
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“The most important thing to do is really listen.”
-- Itzhak Perlman
#Important
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“Nothing is better for my playing than teaching because when you teach, you have to think and you have to listen what other people do. And then all of a sudden, you play yourself and then you say, my goodness, I don't need a teacher. I'm my own teacher. Then I can react to what I'm doing immediately. It really improves.”
-- Itzhak Perlman
#Teacher #Teaching #Thinking
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“One of the most important elements in teaching, conducting, and performing, all three, is listening.”
-- Itzhak Perlman
#Teaching #Listening #Important
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“Another thing that you really do when you play, that you're supposed to do, is colors. You know, you cannot play with one color. If you play with one color, again, it's like watching a beautiful painting, a drawing, but it's all in blue or it's all in red. May be very nice, but not very interesting.”
-- Itzhak Perlman
#Beautiful #Nice #Blue
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“Sometimes it is the artist's task to find out how much music you can still make with what you have left.”
-- Itzhak Perlman
#Artist #Tasks #Sometimes
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“Same thing with harmonies. If you hear something that harmonically is interesting, express it. So that's what I'm saying about talking the music rather than just playing through.”
-- Itzhak Perlman
#Talking #Interesting #Harmony
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“Don't play the way it goes. Play the way it is. And the way it is every time you play it, it's slightly different. Look for something. So that's the challenge not to be bored.”
-- Itzhak Perlman
#Play #Bored #Challenges
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“The thing is that what you try to do when you play is you try to play not below a certain level. In other words, it can be a special day where it would be phenomenal, but if it's not below a certain level, that's the goal. You know, that's what you want to do. That's why you practice and so on.”
-- Itzhak Perlman
#Practice #Play #Goal
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“One of the great challenges is to know when things are not right.”
-- Itzhak Perlman
#Challenges
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“I always consider myself lucky that I can actually cry listening to some music.”
-- Itzhak Perlman
#Listening #Lucky #Cry
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“I always say separate your abilities from your disabilities. You know, if I could play the violin, I don't have to play it standing up. I can play it sitting down and so on.”
-- Itzhak Perlman
#Play #Sitting Down #Down And
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“There is nothing like a fine Italian sound.”
-- Itzhak Perlman
#Italian #Sound #Fine
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“I can actually see the sound in my head. I can actually see it... But each sound is different so this one has that sparkle, there is a sparkle to the sound.”
-- Itzhak Perlman
#Sound #Different #Sparkle
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“I do three things. I do teaching, I do conducting and I do playing. And each one of those sort of helps the other.”
-- Itzhak Perlman
#Teaching #Three #Helping
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“I am playing the violin, that's all I know, nothing else, no education, no nothing. You just practice every day.”
-- Itzhak Perlman
#Practice #Violin
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“Competition can be the most nerve-racking experience. Some people just thrive on it.”
-- Itzhak Perlman
#Farewell #People #Competition
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“In difficult times, people just like to hear music. They like to be moved by what they hear. And music speaks different languages.”
-- Itzhak Perlman
#Music #People #Different
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“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.”
-- Itzhak Perlman
#Would Be #Accepting #Limitation
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“Preparing for a future in music is an expensive proposition.”
-- Itzhak Perlman
#Music Is #Preparing
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“Sometimes you get from the mouth of kids wonderful things.”
-- Itzhak Perlman
#Kids #Mouths #Sometimes
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“That's the goal, to survive your gift.”
-- Itzhak Perlman
#Goal
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“I couldn't only do one thing--I don't want the personal hell of oneness.”
-- Itzhak Perlman
#Oneness #Want #Hell
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“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.”
-- Itzhak Perlman
#Eye #Moon #Blue
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“There are people who are uncanny, who are finished products at a young age. I wasn't, thank God.”
-- Itzhak Perlman
#People #Thank God #Age
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“For every child prodigy that you know about, at least 50 potential ones have burned out before you even heard about them.”
-- Itzhak Perlman
#Children #Prodigies #Heard
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“This machine, the wheelchair, I can go all over the place, but you need a place without stairs to get in.”
-- Itzhak Perlman
#Needs #Machines #Stairs
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“I love to work with young kids.”
-- Itzhak Perlman
#Kids #Young
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“This young wine may have a lot of tannins now, but in five or 10 years it is going to be spectacular, despite the fact that right now it tastes like crude oil. You know this is how it is supposed to taste at this stage of development.”
-- Itzhak Perlman
#Wine #Oil #Years
