First of all I listen to music. I like music.

I listen to all kinds of music - new music, old music, music of my colleagues, everything.

People often thought Leopold Auer was Russian because he lived in St. Petersburg so long, almost fifty years.

I like to stay home and listen to recordings.

But if you go from Moscow to Budapest you think you are in Paris.

Once, in London, the BBC asked me what was my favorite English book. I said Alice in Wonderland

I think it was when I was nineteen, by that time the Jewish laws were already in force and the split was beginning to come about which isolated the Jewish culture.