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.

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

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

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 have the greatest respect for the survivors of the Holocaust. We can't even imagine what these people went through.

To have real knowledge, one must understand the essence of things and not only their manifestations.

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