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

For every child prodigy that you know about, at least 50 potential ones have burned out before you even heard about them.

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

That's the goal, to survive your gift.

Preparing for a future in music is an expensive proposition.

I don't walk on stage unless I'm playing with a orchestra. But when I play a recital, I'm sort of on a scooter, and I just scoot very quickly on stage, and they're saying, wow, look at this. He's so fast.

Beethoven concertos ... Tchaicovsky concertos ... with a lot of these wonderful masterpieces there's always something wonderful to find ... there's always something new to find.