If I can add, say, 10 great new violin concertos to the repertoire before I'm done, that will be truly exciting.

I guess really what my goal is is just to enlarge the violin repertoire.

I think humor is important for all of us, and a great comedian is a great treasure.

When the music is physically demanding, I want to make sure that the effort involved is put across to the audience through physical gesture.

People, of all ages, are far more open than you might think to being moved in new ways.

My goal would be trying to bring some light to the world, which is often a dark and violent place.

It's nice not to have the majority of the attention on me like there is when playing a concerto with an orchestra.

Classical music has been based on works people love and come back to for aural comfort.

I suppose that's why new music and I go well together, because new music often requires maintaining great rhythm.

You're playing serious music, and you want to be taken seriously. When they get my age wrong on the program, I wish they'd make me older.

Marketing is safe. Sales is risky. UNLESS, marketing has done its job. Then sales is safe too.

Hitler had a plausible case to argue when he claimed that the Anschluss was only the application of the Wilsonian principle of self-determination.

The nation was not founded by habitual groupthinkers. But it stands a fair chance of being destroyed by them.

... it came to me that what I had to do was to take pictures and concentrate upon people, only people, all kinds of people, people who paid me and people who didn't.

Spikes, " he sighed. "Heads. Walls.

By choosing to live above the ordinary level we create extraordinary problems for ourselves.

There's not as much big money on the left, but you've got George Soros, who has the Open Society Institute. He's pushing liberal policies.

They yell at me because I can't see what they see. Nobody can explain to me why my eyes work different than theirs.

The world under heaven, after a long period of division, tends to unite; after a long period of union, tends to divide. This has been so since antiquity.

I hold the precepts of Jesus as delivered by Himself, to be the most pure, benevolent and sublime which have ever been preached to man.