Perlman Violin Quotes & Sayings

Smiles were rare in this house. Smiles had to be bought and paid for. — Caroline Mitchell

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

It's as if Japanese men, all to aware that deep inside they'd like to stomp Tokyo flat, breathe fire, and do truly terrible and disgusting things to women, have built themselves the most beautiful of prisons for their rampaging ids. Instead of indulging their fantasies, they focus on food, or landscaping, or the perfect cup of tea
or a single slab of o-toro tuna
letting themselves go only at baseball games and office parties. — Anthony Bourdain

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. — Itzhak Perlman

The Violin of my dreams. If you wanna play a pianissimo that is almost inaudible and yet it carries through a hall that seats 3,000 people, there's your Strad. — Itzhak Perlman

It's WA today, Minna," called Orson from across the room, Orson's name for Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Orson played second violin with a sloppy serenity, rolling his eyes and sticking out his tongue, his bowing long and sweeping and beautiful even when out of tune. "If you must make a mistake," he had quoted, "make it a big one." Was it Heifetz who had said it? Perlman? Zukerman maybe? — Patricia MacLachlan

The devil's aversion to holy water is a light matter compared with a despots dread of a newspaper that laughs. — Mark Twain

Because our choices are largely based on survival. But if life is eternal, life is not a question. — Neale Donald Walsch

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. — Itzhak Perlman

I always say separate your abilities from your disabilities. You know, if I could play the violin, I don't have to play it standing up. I can play it sitting down and so on. — Itzhak Perlman

I am playing the violin, that's all I know, nothing else, no education, no nothing. You just practice every day. — Itzhak Perlman

I bought an Apple iPad and it was out of date sooner than a real apple would have been. We — Karl Pilkington

Get pleasure out of life ... as much as you can. Nobody every died from pleasure. — Sol Hurok