Every person with a disability is an individual.

I am playing the violin, that's all I know, nothing else, no education, no nothing. You just practice every day.

For every child prodigy that you know about, at least 50 potential ones have burned out before you even heard about them.

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!

I don't feel that the conductor has real power. The orchestra has the power, and every member of it knows instantaneously if you're just beating time.

I say to string players in small chamber orchestras, 'it's always easy to become a passenger on the journey in sound, just adding volume to the whole. But if you play in an individual way, it makes the difference between good and great sound in an orchestra.'