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

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.

I love to work with young kids.

I find personally that when I go to a place where I can't get in, I feel hostility from whatever it is, a hotel, a shop, a market, a street corner where there are no curb cuts, because somebody forgot to put them in, and where I have to go two blocks to the corner to do it. A lot of the excuses are, "Well, this is an old building." That's my favorite one. "This is an old building." It's as though 50 years ago, people with disabilities did not exist. As if the disabled are a new problem. It has always been a problem.

A lot of people like to think that polio was a inspiration in what I do. I think that music has to do with what kind of passion do you have.

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.