There Is Nothing Like A Fine Italian

Nothing Is Better For My Playing Than Teaching Because When You Teach, You Have To Think And You Have To Listen What Other People Do. And Then All Of A Sudden, You Play Yourself And Then You Say, My Goodness, I Don't Need A Teacher. I'm My Own Teacher. Then I Can React To What I'm Doing Immediately. It Really Improves.

I Do Three Things. I Do Teaching, I Do Conducting And I Do Playing. And Each One Of Those Sort Of Helps The Other.

When You Play A Concerto With A Small Orchestra, You Don't Feel It Is As Important As Carnegie Hall. You Try To Work Out All The Little Problems. Once That's All Done, Trust Comes In.

I'm Just A One-instrument Player. I Have Been Known To Play A Blender, But I Basically Play - Just Play The Violin.

Ask Many Of Us Who Are Disabled What We Would Like In Life And You Would Be Surprised How Few Would Say, 'not To Be Disabled.' We Accept Our Limitations.