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

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?

US presidents can make all the commitments and declarations they want until they are blue in the face, in the Muslim world they will always be perceived as partisan.

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.

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

Music has the capacity to create a greater reality.