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.

When playing music, it is possible to achieve a unique sense of peace.

Now the first step has to be taken, the step towards democracy. This step is full of risks, and requires trust on all sides. We don't know where it will lead. But if we just stand still, we will have no chance of escaping the violence.

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.

But the ear, let us not forget, starts operating on the forty-fifth day of the pregnancy of a woman. Seven and a half months advance over the eye...(but) what do we do in our society, in our civilisation, to continue this process?

Music has the capacity to create a greater reality.

Not only has the eyes taken over, but we have anaesthetised the ears through all the muzak that we hear all the time.