I 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.

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

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

Preparing for a future in music is an expensive proposition.

Every person with a disability has a slightly different kind of disability. Not everybody has the same problems. Usually the wheelchairs are the wheelchairs. It's the same height and so on. It's a problem.

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

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.