Itzhak Perlman Quotes

Israel, Musician
August 31, 1945

Itzhak Perlman is an Israeli-American violinist, conductor, and music teacher. Over the course of his career, Perlman has performed worldwide, and throughout the United States, in venues that have included a State Dinner at the White House honoring Queen Elizabeth II, and at the Presidential Inauguration of President Obama, and he has conducted the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, and the Westchester Philharmonic. In 2015, he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

Also known as Violinist, Conductor, Teacher

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

Itzhak Perlman
- Practice
- Forget
- Slowly
One of the most important elements in teaching, conducting, and performing, all three, is listening.

Itzhak Perlman

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

Itzhak Perlman
- Yourself
- Teach
- Others
Child prodigy is a curse because you've got all those terrible possibilities.

Itzhak Perlman
Everybody has a different kind of talent and a different timetable as to when they develop.

Itzhak Perlman
- Talent
- Develop
- Timetable
One of the great challenges is to know when things are not right.

Itzhak Perlman
- Know
- Right
- Challenges
Sometimes it is the artist's task to find out how much music you can still make with what you have left.

Itzhak Perlman
- Music
- Make
- Left
I always consider myself lucky that I can actually cry listening to some music.

Itzhak Perlman
- Music
- Lucky
- Cry

In difficult times, people just like to hear music. They like to be moved by what they hear. And music speaks different languages.

Itzhak Perlman
- Music
- Moved
- Languages
You decide to be a musician, you have to put in the time.

Itzhak Perlman
- Time
- Musician
- Put
That's the goal, to survive your gift.

Itzhak Perlman
- Goal
- Gift
- Survive
I can't walk very well, but I'm not onstage to do walking. I'm on the stage to play.

Itzhak Perlman
- Play
- Walking
- Stage