I'm not naive. I know perfectly well that there isn't a single Arab or Muslim in the world who would say: There has to be a Jewish state in the Middle East.

US presidents can make all the commitments and declarations they want until they are blue in the face, in the Muslim world they will always be perceived as partisan.

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.

Germany will never be a real, free thinking and free feeling friend of Israel, because it will always fall under this shadow.

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.

There are many types of silence. There is a silence before the note, there is a silence at the end and there is a silence in the middle.

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.