Tradition demands that we not speak poorly of the dead.

And in English you have this wonderful difference between listening and hearing, and that you can hear without listening, and you can listen and not hear.

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.

If a man dreams about sleeping with Marilyn Monroe, he's certainly entitled to that. But when he wakes up, he has to acknowledge that he is married to someone else.

I'm sure that there are many Israelis who dream of waking up one day to find the Palestinians gone. And there are many Palestinians who dream of going to bed at night and waking up the next morning to find the Israelis gone.

Music has the capacity to create a greater reality.