I look at raising funds for The Perlman Music Program as a challenge and as a way to provide opportunities for people who care about the future of classical music.

A Century of Wisdom is universal and will enrich readers for generations to come.

I don't know if it's ever happened to you, but it's one of my funniest and saddest experiences, when you go into a hotel, and they have an accessible walk-in shower. So you go in and open the curtain, and there is a bench off to the side of the shower. However, the shower is rectangular. On one side there's a bench, but the faucets are across from you. So if you sit on the bench, you cannot reach the faucets.

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

Child prodigy is a curse because you've got all those terrible possibilities.

I am playing the violin, that's all I know, nothing else, no education, no nothing. You just practice every day.

Sometimes you get from the mouth of kids wonderful things.