I don't believe that the entire world is constantly anti-Semitic.

The ear plays the role of the guide in the museum in the concert I'm taking now. We don't have an oral guide, we have to provide it ourselves. One reason why active listening is absolutely essential.

I have heard Ori Kam on several occasions over the last few years and have always been deeply impressed with his playing. He possesses a rare combination of musical talent, technical facility, intelligence, and charisma, and he is undoubtedly one of the most extraordinary young artists I have heard in recent years.

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.

The Germans are prisoners of their past.

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

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