#m

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

#conducting #different #different perspectives #doing #each

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! ↗

— Itzhak Perlman

#couple #doorway #every #go #hell

Preparing for a future in music is an expensive proposition. ↗

— Itzhak Perlman

#future #music #preparing #proposition

Sometimes you get from the mouth of kids wonderful things. ↗

— Itzhak Perlman

#kids #mouth #sometimes #things #wonderful

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. ↗

— Itzhak Perlman

#carnegie hall #concerto #feel #front #get

I will not do a role that I don't think I can do, that I'm not interested in, where there's no humanity, that doesn't have any kind of handle for me at all because I know I'll just stink the joint up. ↗

— Ron Perlman

#because #handle #humanity #i #i can

Almost all of your life is lived by the seat of your pants, one unexpected event crashing into another, with no pattern or reason, and then you finally reach a point, around my age, where you spend more time than ever looking back. Why did this happen? Look where that led? You see the shape of things. ↗

— Ron Perlman

#almost #another #around #back #crashing

Every job has a unique situational circumstance. ↗

— Ron Perlman

#every #job #situational #unique

I actually think it's harder to play vulnerability, because you're having to delve deeper into portions of your own psyche, what it is that makes you human. ↗

— Ron Perlman

#because #deeper #delve #harder #having

I don't think that I've had a career like anyone else's, but there are hosts and hosts of actors whose careers I admire. ↗

— Ron Perlman

#anyone #career #careers #else #had