There are probably many people in Israel who believe that Wagner, who died in 1883, lived in Berlin in 1942 and was friends with Hitler.

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

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

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

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.

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

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