Quotes by Itzhak Perlman - Page 3

Perhaps our task in this shaky, fast-changing, bewildering world in which we live is to make music, at first with all that we have, and then, when that is no longer possible, to make music with what we have left.
Itzhak Perlman / Violinist
Firsts
Tasks
World
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I have a very simple philosophy. One has to separate the abilities from the disabilities. The fact I cannot walk, that I need crutches or a scooter or whatever it is, has nothing to do with my playing the violin.
Itzhak Perlman / Violinist
Ability
Crutches
Philosophy
Simple
Violin
Disabilities
Fact
Walk
Playing
Scooter
Separate
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I met my wife in music camp. She's got great ears, and we have a relationship where she's not afraid to tell me anything. If something's going on in my playing, she will tell me about it, and that's very, very important.
Itzhak Perlman / Violinist
Ears
Camp
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I am humbled and honored to receive the Genesis Prize, recognizing not just my professional achievements and my desire to improve the world, but also my commitment to my Jewish identity, Jewish values, and Jewish culture.
Itzhak Perlman / Violinist
Genesis
Honored
Jewish Culture
Prize
Recognizing
Jewish
Achievements
Humbled
Receive
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Everybody's saying, you know, 'You're so heroic and so on despite of the polio that you had and so on.' Look, I had polio when I was four. So when you're four years old, you know, you get used to things very, very quickly.
Itzhak Perlman / Violinist
Heroic
Polio
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To bring a large audience to a piece of serious music and make it accessible does not mean reducing it in any way. And I've learned that if something is good, even if it is a little difficult, people will get that it is good.
Itzhak Perlman / Violinist
Reducing
Good Music People
Good Music Difficult
Difficult People
Large Audience
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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 / Violinist
Crude
Crude Oil
Oil
Spectacular
Taste
Wine
Years
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When I came to the United States, I appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show as a 13-year-old, and I played a Mendelssohn Concerto, and it sounded like a talented 13-year-old with a lot of promise. But it did not sound like a finished product.
Itzhak Perlman / Violinist
Finished
Promise
Appeared
Concerto
Talented
Finished Product
Product
Sullivan
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If you put four different people on a podium conducting the same downbeat, you get four different sounds. It's a little mysterious and fascinating. There's so much you can do with motions and body movements besides giving accurate beats.
Itzhak Perlman / Violinist
Accurate
Beats
Conducting
Fascinating
Mysterious
Besides
Different People
Different Sounds
Motions
Movements
Podium
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A lot of people ask me, 'What is your goal now that you have done everything?' And I always say that my goal is to not be bored by what I do. The only way that I cannot be bored by what I do is if I play something and it's all new to me.
Itzhak Perlman / Violinist
Bored
Done Always Your
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I'm now doing three things: concerts, conducting, and teaching, and they each support each other. I learn to see things from different perspectives and listen with different ears. The most important thing that you need to do is really listen.
Itzhak Perlman / Violinist
Concerts
Ears
Perspective
Support
Teaching
Different Perspectives
Important Thing
Most Important Thing
Perspectives
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I say to string players in small chamber orchestras, 'it's always easy to become a passenger on the journey in sound, just adding volume to the whole. But if you play in an individual way, it makes the difference between good and great sound in an orchestra.'
Itzhak Perlman / Violinist
Chamber
Orchestra
Volume
Good Great Journey
Adding
Passenger
String
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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 / Violinist
Goal
Play
Practice
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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 / Violinist
Beautiful
Blue
Nice
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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 / Violinist
Teacher
Teaching
Thinking
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A lot of society tries to put people with disabilities into one cube, and when you think about it, many, many people have different types of disabilities, and you cannot put a code that applies to towards everyone - generally, they can be guidelines, but in the long run, interior designers and architects need more education on the subject.
Itzhak Perlman / Violinist
Code
Guidelines
Architects
Cube
Different Types
Disabilities
Interior
Long Run
Tries
Types
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A lot of society tries to put people with disabilities into one cube, and when you think about it, many, many people have different types of disabilities, and you cannot put a code that applies towards everyone - generally, they can be guidelines, but in the long run, interior designers and architects need more education on the subject. That's what's missing.
Itzhak Perlman / Violinist
Running
Long
Thinking
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I don't know if it's ever happened to you, but it's one of my funniest and saddest experiences, when you go into a hotel, and they have an accessible walk-in shower. So you go in and open the curtain, and there is a bench off to the side of the shower. However, the shower is rectangular. On one side there's a bench, but the faucets are across from you. So if you sit on the bench, you cannot reach the faucets.
Itzhak Perlman / Violinist
Benches
Showers
Sides
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I find personally that when I go to a place where I can't get in, I feel hostility from whatever it is, a hotel, a shop, a market, a street corner where there are no curb cuts, because somebody forgot to put them in, and where I have to go two blocks to the corner to do it. A lot of the excuses are, "Well, this is an old building." That's my favorite one. "This is an old building." It's as though 50 years ago, people with disabilities did not exist. As if the disabled are a new problem. It has always been a problem.
Itzhak Perlman / Violinist
Block
Cutting
Years
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