When we have a good balance between thinking and feeling… our actions and lives are always the richer for it. Yitzhak Shamir Read Quote
Mastering music is more than learning technical skills. Practicing is about quality, not quantity. Some days I practice for hours; other days it will be just a few minutes. Yitzhak Shamir Read Quote
Once something is memorable, it’s living and you’re using it. That to me is the foundation of a creative society. Yitzhak Shamir Read Quote
The tango is really a combination of many cultures, though it eventually became the national music of Argentina. Yitzhak Shamir Read Quote
With every year of playing, you want to relax one more muscle. Why? Because the more tense you are, the less you can hear. Yitzhak Shamir Read Quote
There are limits to how much sound a cello can make. That’s part of the framing of acoustical instruments. Finding what those limits might be, and then trying to suggest perhaps even the illusion of going beyond is part of that kind of effort. Yitzhak Shamir Read Quote
The tradition of classical music and the opera is such that it used to be the place where social intercourse could take place between all parts of society: politicians, industrialists, artists, citizens, etc. That tradition, I think, still exists, but it’s much, much more diluted. Yitzhak Shamir Read Quote
Practicing is not only playing your instrument, either by yourself or rehearsing with others – it also includes imagining yourself practicing. Your brain forms the same neural connections and muscle memory whether you are imagining the task or actually doing it. Yitzhak Shamir Read Quote
The thing that I’ve always been slightly frustrated with, was that the idea of a CD is kind of confined to a material possession that you can put on a shelf. And the idea of music, for me, is always about both the communication and the sharing of content. And so the interactive part is missing. Yitzhak Shamir Read Quote
I think there are so many ways to become interested in music. I believe signs of sustained interest gives a sense of the right time. Music, if thought of as a language, would perhaps indicate that as early as possible is not so bad. I do believe that a really nurturing first teacher that makes the child love something is crucial. Yitzhak Shamir Read Quote
