Isaac Stern

Music is like making love: either all or nothing.

A man possesses talent; genius possesses the man.

There are more bad musicians than there is bad music.

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

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

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

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