Itzhak Perlman Quotes

Sounds always fascinated me.

Everything goes in waves. Evolution goes in waves. The ocean goes in waves. Energy goes in waves. Sound travels in waves.

It's not like I actually understand the properties of sound.

Music is sound. It's a wave. It's going out and coming back, and it's bouncing off.

As it enters the ear, does it come in like broken glass or does it come in like honey?

Sound is the first thing that we tune into.

I love the word 'resonance.'

It's all about sound. It's that simple.

I count all the time on resonance. I call on this, you see.

Sound is a movement which is handed on from atom to atom in a gas through which the sound is passing, just as a chain of workers pass buckets of water to a fire. The quicker the workers move their hands and arms, the quicker the water moves.

Which is more musical, a truck passing by a factory or a truck passing by a music school? Are the people inside the school musical and the ones outside unmusical? What if the ones inside can't hear very well, would that change my question?

You cannot hear music and noise at the same time.

Color is vibration like music; everything is vibration.

Music is just air moving around.

I hated science in high school. Technology? Engineering? Math? Why would I ever need this? Little did I realize that music was also about science, technology, engineering and mathematics, all rolled into one.

At first acoustics attributed to the different sounds only a limited number of characteristic features.

You turned on the radio and heard all kinds of things.

Sound is the vocabulary of nature.

I don't make music for eyes. I make music for ears.

I don't even know what sound is, much less what it's for. It isn't to make money that's for sure. I've never made any.

My role on the planet is to bring the power of sound.

I think, Larry, one of the things is I'm a very active person.

I am just a curious gal who is continuing to be curious.

I am a big music nerd.

I'm into sounds, man.