Itzhak Perlman Quotes

Preparing for a future in music is an expensive proposition.

That's the goal, to survive your gift.

I can't walk very well, but I'm not onstage to do walking. I'm on the stage to play.

Trust your ability!

It is good medicine to go to a concert hall and forget the harshness of what's going on. It can be a very positive thing.

An amazing gift in a young child is, in some ways, an abnormality.

'Kol Nidrei' is probably the most important prayer in the Jewish religion. It comes on the evening of Yom Kippur. There are so many different renditions of it.

I'm a great sports fan, you know. I love to watch tennis and basketball and baseball and so on.

I always find that there is a real communication between voice and violin.

Ask many of us who are disabled what we would like in life and you would be surprised how few would say 'Not to be disabled.' We accept our limitations.

This has been my vocation to make music of what remains.