Every great work of art has two faces, one towards its own time and one towards future, towards eternity.

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

I have the greatest respect for the survivors of the Holocaust. We can't even imagine what these people went through.

The ear plays the role of the guide in the museum in the concert I'm taking now. We don't have an oral guide, we have to provide it ourselves. One reason why active listening is absolutely essential.

An hour of violin lessons in Berlin is an hour where you get the child interested in music. An hour in a violin lesson in Palestine is an hour away from violence, is an hour away from fundamentalism.

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?

Tradition demands that we not speak poorly of the dead.