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

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.

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.

The tempo is the suitcase. If the suitcase is too small, everything is completely wrinkled. If the tempo is too fast, everything becomes so scrambled you can't understand it.

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

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.