The Germans are prisoners of their past.

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.

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

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

In the long term, Israel's security rests on only one pillar: the Palestinians' acceptance of the country. It isn't the atom bomb that makes Israel secure.

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

I don't believe that the entire world is constantly anti-Semitic.