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

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

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

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

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.

The French Revolution gave us three... powerful ideas, or concepts - liberty, equality and fraternity. But these ideas... are not only right in themselves, but they are so because they come in the proper order. You cannot have equality without liberty, and you certainly cannot have fraternity without equality. The importance of this I learnt from music, because music evolves in time, and therefore the order inevitably determines the content.

Israel's strategy cannot be to constantly confront the Palestinians with the history of the Holocaust, but instead to show them that Israel is a reality.