Tradition demands that we not speak poorly of the dead.

European anti-Semitism goes much further back than to the partition of Palestine and the establishment of Israel in 1948. It even goes further back than the Holocaust.

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.

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

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

Tradition demands that we not speak poorly of the dead.

I'm not naive. I know perfectly well that there isn't a single Arab or Muslim in the world who would say: There has to be a Jewish state in the Middle East.