An Israeli who thinks that his government is doing everything right wouldn't join the Divan Orchestra in the first place.

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

I can't stand being in Chicago anymore and hearing the Brahms Violin Concerto in the elevator. Because that shows me that when they come to the concert hall they listen to it in the same way.

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.

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

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

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.