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"88% of what we call good songs aren't really good. They merely remind us of a good time we once had."
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"Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars."
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"Music is the fertilizer for heart to bloom the flower of love and peace."
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"Music opens the window of the soul to let the nectar of life come in."
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"You have to open your mind. I like the ability to express myself in a deep way. It's the closest music to our humanity - it's like a folk music that rises up out of a culture."
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"The best songs I write in 20 minutes."
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"I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me the most civilised music in the world."
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"I'm half Jewish, I'm half black, I look in-between. I dress funny. I play all these different styles of music on one record. It's like, What is he doing?"
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"Alas! all music jars when the soul's out of tune."
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"After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music."
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"Competition can be the most nerve-racking experience. Some people just thrive on it."
Experience

"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."
Moon

"This young wine may have a lot of tannins now, but in five or 10 years it is going to be spectacular, despite the fact that right now it tastes like crude oil. You know this is how it is supposed to taste at this stage of development."
Development

"You get more nervous in front of a lot of people. That's why, when you play a concerto, you play with a small orchestra, in some place where you don't feel that it is as important as Carnegie Hall."
People

"So many things can drive you mad as a child, not only music."
Music

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

"That makes classical music work, the ability to improvise."
Music

"I look at raising funds for The Perlman Music Program as a challenge and as a way to provide opportunities for people who care about the future of classical music."
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"I love to work with young kids."
Love

"Preparing for a future in music is an expensive proposition."
Music
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