"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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"Music is the melody whose text is the world."

Arthur Schopenhauer, German Philosopher

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"Harpists spend half their life tuning and the other half playing out of tune."

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"Miranda raised her eyebrows. Apparently she hadn't figured me for a country music fan. I liked her for that."

Rick Riordan, American Novelist

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"Music is the language of the soul and the expression of deep inner feelings."

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"Music is the art of the prophets and the gift of God."

Martin Luther, German Leader

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"They say that the eyes of some paintings can follow you around the room, a fact that I doubt, but I am wondering whether some music can follow you for ever."

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"No one can any longer write in the fat style of Strauss. That was killed by Stravinsky. He stripped the body of much of its clothes. Music is the craft of building structures with sound and that is what Stravinsky represents."

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"Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish."

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

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"A sponge has that much absorbent capability and after a while you can pour water over it and nothing stays."

Nothing

"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!"

Change

"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."

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"For people who are really talented, what you don't say becomes extremely important. You have to judge what to say and what to leave alone so you can let the talent develop."

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"Any gifted child can potentially get in real trouble because of the way they are handled."

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"Music is the melody whose text is the world."

"Harpists spend half their life tuning and the other half playing out of tune."

"Miranda raised her eyebrows. Apparently she hadn't figured me for a country music fan. I liked her for that."

"Music is the language of the soul and the expression of deep inner feelings."

"Music is the art of the prophets and the gift of God."

"What is my definition of jazz? 'Safe sex of the highest order."

"They say that the eyes of some paintings can follow you around the room, a fact that I doubt, but I am wondering whether some music can follow you for ever."

"No one can any longer write in the fat style of Strauss. That was killed by Stravinsky. He stripped the body of much of its clothes. Music is the craft of building structures with sound and that is what Stravinsky represents."

"Music is healing and soothing. It is the universal language of kindness and love."

"Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish."

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

"A sponge has that much absorbent capability and after a while you can pour water over it and nothing stays."

"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!"

"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."

"For people who are really talented, what you don't say becomes extremely important. You have to judge what to say and what to leave alone so you can let the talent develop."

"Any gifted child can potentially get in real trouble because of the way they are handled."

"Child prodigy is a curse because you've got all those terrible possibilities."

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

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