Again and again I say to young students, "First of all learn to look at yourself and say honestly, 'I'm not trying to impress the listener: what I really want is for the listener to hear how beautiful is the music the composer wrote. I want the listener to feel how much I love this music. I want to convince the listener that this music is very important to us, necessary for us, as human beings,'"
From: Isaac Stern: My First 79 Years written with Chaim Potok page 258
