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

I have the greatest respect for the survivors of the Holocaust. We can't even imagine what these people went through.

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.

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.

Anti-Semitism has no historical, political and certainly no philosophical origins. Anti-Semitism is a disease.

The Steinway piano is such an incomparable instrument. Due to its virtues, I am able to express all my musical feelings.