Just imagine yourself in a wheelchair. Go through the building. If there's a place you can't go in, it's not accessible.

Perhaps 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.

You decide to be a musician, you have to put in the time.

..I heard Ori Kam and was deeply impressed with his achievements as a violist. His technical and interpretive skills are truly unique. I see a great future for him.

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

When you talk about a million bucks, if you think about it very carefully, it's not that much money, if you start to divide it. You have to figure out a philosophy as to whom you want to give it to.

That's the goal, to survive your gift.