Itzhak Perlman

I can tell you that many soloists probably wish they could sit.

When you live in a small country such as Israel, the dream of any musician is to go abroad.

My oldest daughter is a pianist; she plays concerts. We play together, also.

In the musician, there is a tendency to have a narrowness. It's all compartmentalized. I am playing the violin; that's all I know, nothing else, no education, no nothing. You just practice every day.

When I came to the United States, I appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show as a 13-year-old, and I played a Mendelssohn Concerto, and it sounded like a talented 13-year-old with a lot of promise. But it did not sound like a finished product.

When you are 8 or 9, you should have a childhood. You should have adolescence. You should go through everything in a normal way.