I couldn't only do one thing--I don't want the personal hell of oneness.

In Paris they have special wheelchairs that go through every doorway. They don't change the doorways, they change the wheelchairs. To hell with the people! If someone weighs a couple more pounds, that's it!

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

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

That makes classical music work, the ability to improvise.

For people who are really talented, what you don't say becomes extremely important. You have to judge what to say and what to leave alone so you can let the talent develop.

I'm just a one-instrument player. I have been known to play a blender, but I basically play - just play the violin.