I am playing the violin, thats all I know, nothing else, no education, no nothing. You just practice every day. – Itzhak Perlman
For people who are really talented, what you dont say becomes extremely important. You have to judge what to say and what to leave alone so you can let the talent develop. – Itzhak Perlman
When you play a concerto with a small orchestra, you dont feel it is as important as Carnegie Hall. You try to work out all the little problems. Once thats all done, trust comes in. – Itzhak Perlman
I think that every child grows up with the ideas that what we are given, is our society. Your education, and your mother and father, they tell you this is how it is, but then you hit adolescence and you think, Is it? Why? Why is it like that? Sometimes that questioning leads to something more. – Alice Englert
In the worship of Bacchus, we have sacrificed too freely…. Why not consecrate ourselves to the queen of the Camelias, and revel in the warm stream of sympathy that flows from her altar? In the liquid amber within the ivory-porcelain, the initiated may touch the sweet reticence of Confucius… – Okakura KakuzÅ
I went through a phase when I was 13 where I would only fall in love with people over the age of 19 or 20. I never had a real relationship with any of these people, but it was definitely the guy I wanted to hang out with and wanted to go on trips with. I would be like, But, Daddy, hes a musician!. – Olivia Wilde