In the long term, Israel's security rests on only one pillar: the Palestinians' acceptance of the country. It isn't the atom bomb that makes Israel secure.

Every great work of art has two faces, one towards its own time and one towards future, towards eternity.

I love conducting. What I'm tired of is music administration. I don't want that. I just want to make music.

I don't believe that the entire world is constantly anti-Semitic.

Not only has the eyes taken over, but we have anaesthetised the ears through all the muzak that we hear all the time.

Israel's strategy cannot be to constantly confront the Palestinians with the history of the Holocaust, but instead to show them that Israel is a reality.

Germany will never be a real, free thinking and free feeling friend of Israel, because it will always fall under this shadow.