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.

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.

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

People blame their failures on past birth, destiny, surroundings, and rarely to self in the order of their evolved mental state. The converse is rather more true for the successful people.

Science is most definitely not a priesthood where people stand on a mountain and pass truths down to the waiting minions below.

I would love to do a western. I would love to play an explorer. That is always something that has really captured my imagination since I was a kid, like James Cook or Magellan or Earnest Shackleton.

I am not concerned about the 80 BMP consistency law of popular music. I'm concerned with other things, and they're very valid.

I love you more than anything in this world. I don't expect that will last.

The first thing Jesus tells the church of Ephesus that He loves about them is they have sound doctrine.

I felt we needed someone to lead this country who believed heart and soul in leaving the European Union.

Bombs do not choose. They will hit everything.

The main trouble with despair is that it is self-fulfilling.

A celebrity is any well-known TV or movie star who looks like he spends more than two hours working on his hair.