If you play something well, I don't care what it is. I mean, I don't play an electric [violin] - I tried. It's actually interesting.

Sometimes you get from the mouth of kids wonderful things.

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.

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!

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.

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

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