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.

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

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

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

I always maintain that playing in an orchestra intelligently is the best school for democracy. If you play a solo, the conductor and everybody in the orchestra follows you. Then, a few bars later, the main voice goes to another instrument, another group, and then you have to go back into the collective [sound]. The art of playing in an orchestra is being able to express yourself to the maximum but always in relation to something else that is going on.

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