US presidents can make all the commitments and declarations they want until they are blue in the face, in the Muslim world they will always be perceived as partisan.

And in English you have this wonderful difference between listening and hearing, and that you can hear without listening, and you can listen and not hear.

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

I have heard Ori Kam on several occasions over the last few years and have always been deeply impressed with his playing. He possesses a rare combination of musical talent, technical facility, intelligence, and charisma, and he is undoubtedly one of the most extraordinary young artists I have heard in recent years.

Jewish intellectuals contributed a great deal to insure that Europe became a continent of humanism, and it is with these humanist ideals that Europe must now intervene in the Middle East conflict.

There are many types of silence. There is a silence before the note, there is a silence at the end and there is a silence in the middle.

The Germans are prisoners of their past.