The Germans are prisoners of their past.

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

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.

Sound is often talked about in a very subjective way, as if it had a colour. This is a bright sound, this is a dark sound. I don't believe in that because I think that is much too subjective.

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.

Tradition demands that we not speak poorly of the dead.

There are many types of silence. There is a silence before the note, there is a silence at the end and there is a silence in the middle.