Top 27 Isaac Stern Quotes
#1. 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
#2. 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
#3. 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
#4. 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
#5. I've always believed you go to literature to find the shared human experience, not the categorized human experience.
Alice McDermott
#6. There are more bad musicians than there is bad music.
Isaac Stern
#7. Mozart's music is like an X-ray of your soul - it shows what is there, and what isn't.
Isaac Stern
#8. When you believe in something, you can move mountains.
Isaac Stern
#9. The EPA's climate change regulations are based on compromised scientific reports and heavily flawed data.
John Barrasso
#10. Everything I do is for my mom. Every time I step out there and try to get better, it's for her.
Hines Ward
#11. I have known Ori Kam for several years and have always regarded him as an extraordinarily talented young mucisian.
Isaac Stern
#12. Music is not an acquired culture ... it is an active part of life.
Isaac Stern
#13. Listen, I will now tell you the truth and there is no other.
Isaac Stern
#14. New York is the dirtiest, largest, ugliest, broken-down city in the world-but it's the only one.
Isaac Stern
#15. 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
#16. 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
#17. A man possesses talent; genius possesses the man.
Isaac Stern
#18. 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
#19. Everywhere in the world, music enhances a hall, with one exception: Carnegie Hall enhances the music.
Isaac Stern
#20. One of the many sad ironies of African-American life is that every banal dysfunctional social gathering is called a "function.
Paul Beatty
#21. 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
#22. 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
#23. Music is like making love: either all or nothing.
Isaac Stern
#24. Every easy choice will have its consequence tomorrow.
Meryl Streep
#25. It is only through failure and through experiment that we learn and grow.
Isaac Stern
#26. 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
#27. Playing a concerto with Zubin is like being surrounded by a well-loved, cashmere-lined silk glove.
Isaac Stern
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