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

One of the most important elements in teaching, conducting, and performing, all three, is listening.

Sometimes it is the artist's task to find out how much music you can still make with what you have left.

Never miss an opportunity to teach; when you teach others, you teach yourself.

One must always practice slowly. If you learn something slowly, you forget it slowly.

Another thing that I don't like to do is show too much how it goes. I do it once in a blue moon. Sometimes there are lessons when I don't pick up a violin at all.

The most important thing to do is really listen.

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.

I always consider myself lucky that I can actually cry listening to some music.

Every musical phrase has a purpose. It's like talking. If you talk with a particular purpose, people listen to you, but if you just recite, it's not as meaningful.

When you play a concerto with a small orchestra, you don't feel it is as important as Carnegie Hall. You try to work out all the little problems. Once that's all done, trust comes in.

Love, love, love, says Percy.And hurry as fast as you canalong the shining beach, or the rubble, or the dust.Then, go to sleep.Give up your body heat, your beating heart.Then, trust.

Before I started working here I drank smoked and used bad language. Thanks to this job I now have good reason.

I grew up in Portugal, and people there party 'til 7 or 8 in the morning there.

There are no freelance Christians; there is no solo-flying to heaven.

Birds sing on a bare bough; O, believer, canst not thou?

For perfect love casteth out fear, and fear can only be from the material things that soon must fade away. And thus hold to the higher thought of eternity. For life is a continual experience.

I think of myself as an amateur filmmaker, not a professional, in the sense that "amateur" means love of something, for the form.

The chameleon, who is said to feed upon nothing but air, has of all animals the nimblest tongue.

I loved school. I studied like crazy. I was a Class A nerd.

I love to be able to support other women comics.