Music, because of its specific and far-reaching metaphorical powers, can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable.

I hate you, Richard Wagner . . . but I hate you on my knees.

Which of my Jewish roots do I follow?

Mozart's music is constantly escaping from its frame, because it cannot be contained in it.

Life without music is unthinkable. Life without music is academic. That is why my contact with music is a total embrace.

It is hard to think of another composer who so perfectly marries form and passion.

A work of art does not answer questions, it provokes them; and its essential meaning is in the tension between the contradictory answers.