#you

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

— Itzhak Perlman

#before #burned #child #child prodigy #even

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. ↗

— Itzhak Perlman

#conductor #every #feel #i #instantaneously

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

— Itzhak Perlman

#child #feel #i #i feel #pay

I love to work with young kids. ↗

— Itzhak Perlman

#i love #kids #love #work #young

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

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

— Itzhak Perlman

#kids #mouth #sometimes #things #wonderful

That's the goal, to survive your gift. ↗

— Itzhak Perlman

#goal #survive #to survive #your

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

— Itzhak Perlman

#finished #god #i #people #products

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

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