Isaac Stern Quotes

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

Isaac Stern

#2. If somebody says they don't watch the leaderboard, I don't buy that, I'm sorry. Because you've got to know where you are to know how to play.

Jack Nicklaus

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

Isaac Stern

#4. Every easy choice will have its consequence tomorrow.

Meryl Streep

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

Isaac Stern

#6. 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.

Isaac Stern

#7. 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.

Isaac Stern

#8. One of the many sad ironies of African-American life is that every banal dysfunctional social gathering is called a "function.

Paul Beatty

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

Isaac Stern

#10. 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.

Isaac Stern

#11. I know writers who write only when inspiration comes. How would Isaac Stern play if he played the violin only when he felt like it? He would be lousy.

Madeleine L'Engle

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

Isaac Stern

#13. Bodies feel pain; only the mind can suffer. Indeed, it's possible to be in pain and yet not suffer at all.

Robert S. Rosenthal

#14. 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.

Isaac Stern

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

Isaac Stern

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

Isaac Stern

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

Isaac Stern

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

Isaac Stern

#19. Everything I do is for my mom. Every time I step out there and try to get better, it's for her.

Hines Ward

#20. The EPA's climate change regulations are based on compromised scientific reports and heavily flawed data.

John Barrasso

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

Isaac Stern

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

Isaac Stern

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

Isaac Stern

#24. I've always believed you go to literature to find the shared human experience, not the categorized human experience.

Alice McDermott

#25. The good deed you do today, for a brother or sister in need will come back to you some day, for humanity's a circle in deed.

Robert Alan Aurthur

#26. An actor is supposed to be a sensitive instrument. Isaac Stern takes good care of his violin. What if everybody jumped on his violin?

Marilyn Monroe

#27. There are memories for both of us, of course, but I've learned that memories can have a physical, almost living presence, and in this, Savannah and I are different as well.If hers are stars in the nighttime sky, mine are the haunted empty spaces in beetween ...

Nicholas Sparks