Quotes from Isaac Stern

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.

Music is not an acquired culture... it is an active part of life.

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

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.

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.

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

that little bit between each note — silences which give the form

A man possesses talent; genius possesses the man.

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

There are more bad musicians than there is bad music.

It is only through failure and through experiment that we learn and grow.

There are more bad musicians than there is bad music.

Music is like making love: either all or nothing.