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

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.

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

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

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.