One must always practice slowly. If you learn something slowly, you forget it slowly.
Itzhak PerlmanOne of the most important elements in teaching, conducting, and performing, all three, is listening.
Itzhak PerlmanI don't feel that the conductor has real power. The orchestra has the power, and every member of it knows instantaneously if you're just beating time.
Itzhak PerlmanPerhaps our task in this shaky, fast-changing, bewildering world in which we live is to make music, at first with all that we have, and then, when that is no longer possible, to make music with what we have left.
Itzhak Perlman