“Sometimes it’s the artist’s task to find out how much music you can still make with what you have left.”
Quote by Itzhak Perlman
SOURCE OF THIS QUOTE: One evening Irzhak Perlman was in concert and …
One person in the audience reported what happened: “I know it is impossible to play a violin concerto with only three strings. I know that and so do you, but that night, Isaac Perlman refused to know it. You could see him modulating, changing, and recomposing in his head. At one point it sounded as if he were re-tuning the strings to get a new sound that had never been heard before. When he finished, there was an awesome silence that filled the room. Then people rose and cheered. Perlman smiled, wiped his brow, and raised the bow of his violin to quiet them. He spoke, not boastfully, but quietly in a pensive tone, ‘You know, sometimes it is the artist’s task to find out how much music you can still make with what you have left.'”
REFLECTION:
- According to this story’s legend, at a concert one evening, Itzhak played his violin with just three strings and afterwards, quietly reflected “how much music can you make with what you have left?”
- When you’ve had setbacks and unexpected things happened, how did you adjust?
- Is there a situation you are currently dealing with that requires you to “still make music with what you have left?”