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.

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

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

The ear plays the role of the guide in the museum in the concert I'm taking now. We don't have an oral guide, we have to provide it ourselves. One reason why active listening is absolutely essential.

Every great work of art has two faces, one towards its own time and one towards future, towards eternity.

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

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