Music means different things to different people and sometimes even different things to the same person at different moments of his life.

Sound is often talked about in a very subjective way, as if it had a colour. This is a bright sound, this is a dark sound. I don't believe in that because I think that is much too subjective.

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

Tradition demands that we not speak poorly of the dead.

I'm sure that there are many Israelis who dream of waking up one day to find the Palestinians gone. And there are many Palestinians who dream of going to bed at night and waking up the next morning to find the Israelis gone.

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.

An Israeli who thinks that his government is doing everything right wouldn't join the Divan Orchestra in the first place.