Anti-Semitism has no historical, political and certainly no philosophical origins. Anti-Semitism is a disease.

An hour of violin lessons in Berlin is an hour where you get the child interested in music. An hour in a violin lesson in Palestine is an hour away from violence, is an hour away from fundamentalism.

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.

You can't expect someone born into a family with no music...to understand when I'm conducting the Schönberg Variations.

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.

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.

European anti-Semitism goes much further back than to the partition of Palestine and the establishment of Israel in 1948. It even goes further back than the Holocaust.