Isaac Stern Quotes

#1. Playing a concerto with Zubin is like being surrounded by a well-loved, cashmere-lined silk glove.

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#2. It is only through failure and through experiment that we learn and grow.

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#3. Music is like making love: either all or nothing.

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#4. I have a responsibility to pass on to the next generation what I learned from my teachers, ... It keeps me young and reminds me where I came from. Teaching young artists is like giving water to a flower.

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#5. A great conductor possesses that certain charisma and talent that demand the ears and the attention of an audience. I can't tell you how that happens, but I'm sure it has an inner basis that is never learned.

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#6. Everywhere in the world, music enhances a hall, with one exception: Carnegie Hall enhances the music.

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#7. A conductor has to know how to translate music into a communicative force that makes the listener want to hear what he has to say.

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#8. A man possesses talent; genius possesses the man.

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#9. Music is the thousandth of a millisecond between one note and another; how you get from one to the other-that's where the music is.

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#10. New York is the dirtiest, largest, ugliest, broken-down city in the world-but it's the only one.

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#11. Listen, I will now tell you the truth and there is no other.

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#12. Music is not an acquired culture ... it is an active part of life.

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#13. I have known Ori Kam for several years and have always regarded him as an extraordinarily talented young mucisian.

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#14. When you believe in something, you can move mountains.

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#15. Mozart's music is like an X-ray of your soul - it shows what is there, and what isn't.

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#16. There are more bad musicians than there is bad music.

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