The Germans are prisoners of their past.

Music has the capacity to create a greater reality.

Jewish intellectuals contributed a great deal to insure that Europe became a continent of humanism, and it is with these humanist ideals that Europe must now intervene in the Middle East conflict.

Music means different things to different people and sometimes even different things to the same person at different moments of his life.

Not only has the eyes taken over, but we have anaesthetised the ears through all the muzak that we hear all the time.

The Germans are prisoners of their past.

You can't expect someone born into a family with no music...to understand when I'm conducting the Schönberg Variations.