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So many things can drive you mad as a child, not only music.

Any gifted child can potentially get in real trouble because of the way they are handled.

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

I feel that you always pay when you are a child.

That's the goal, to survive your gift.

I listen to kids play a lot.

There are people who are uncanny, who are finished products at a young age. I wasn't, thank God.

I am playing the violin, that's all I know, nothing else, no education, no nothing. You just practice every day.

A sponge has that much absorbent capability and after a while you can pour water over it and nothing stays.

Competition can be the most nerve-racking experience. Some people just thrive on it.

In Paris they have special wheelchairs that go through every doorway. They don't change the doorways, they change the wheelchairs. To hell with the people! If someone weighs a couple more pounds, that's it!

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.

Trust your ability!

Sometimes you get from the mouth of kids wonderful things.

Child prodigy is a curse because you've got all those terrible possibilities.

That makes classical music work, the ability to improvise.

I look at raising funds for The Perlman Music Program as a challenge and as a way to provide opportunities for people who care about the future of classical music.

Preparing for a future in music is an expensive proposition.

The most important thing to do is really listen.

I don't feel that the conductor has real power. The orchestra has the power, and every member of it knows instantaneously if you're just beating time.

You get more nervous in front of a lot of people. That's why, when you play a concerto, you play with a small orchestra, in some place where you don't feel that it is as important as Carnegie Hall.

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.

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

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.

I love to work with young kids.

For people who are really talented, what you don't say becomes extremely important. You have to judge what to say and what to leave alone so you can let the talent develop.

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.

When you are 8 or 9, you should have a childhood. You should have adolescence. You should go through everything in a normal way.

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.

In the musician, there is a tendency to have a narrowness. It's all compartmentalized. I am playing the violin; that's all I know, nothing else, no education, no nothing. You just practice every day.

My oldest daughter is a pianist; she plays concerts. We play together, also.

When you live in a small country such as Israel, the dream of any musician is to go abroad.

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.

I can tell you that many soloists probably wish they could sit.

I think that music has to do with what kind of passion do you have.

I'm an acoustical person.

I have just one fiddle. It works, and that's it. It has been an old friend.

Only one of my grandchildren is serious about a musical instrument. The others dabble in it.

Television will always err on the side of making something not quite as classy as it could be.

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.

I've been lucky to conduct the very best orchestras in the world: New York, San Francisco, Chicago, Berlin, the London Philharmonic.

If you can read, then you can recite Shakespeare. But that's not acting.

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