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!

There are people who are uncanny, who are finished products at a young age. I wasn't, thank God.

That makes classical music work, the ability to improvise.

The most important thing to do is really listen.

I can't walk very well, but I'm not onstage to do walking. I'm on the stage to play.

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.

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