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

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

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

In the beginning, there was silence. And out of the silence came the sound. The sound is not here.

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.

The Germans are prisoners of their past.

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