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

If a man dreams about sleeping with Marilyn Monroe, he's certainly entitled to that. But when he wakes up, he has to acknowledge that he is married to someone else.

Music has the capacity to create a greater reality.

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

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.

In the beginning, there was silence. And out of the silence came the sound. The sound is not here.

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