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 t….

There are many types of silence. There is a silence before the note, there is a silence at the end and there is a silence in the middle..

An hour of violin lessons in Berlin is an hour where you get the child interested in music. An hour in a violin lesson in Palestine is an hour away f….

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 ….

Music has the capacity to create a greater reality..

Music means different things to different people and sometimes even different things to the same person at different moments of his life..

In times of totalitarian or autocratic rule, music (indeed culture in general) is often the only avenue of independent thought. It is the only way pe….

When playing music, it is possible to achieve a unique sense of peace..

To have real knowledge, one must understand the essence of things and not only their manifestations..

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

Sound is often talked about in a very subjective way, as if it had a colour. This is a bright sound, this is a dark sound. I don't believe in that be….

I can't stand being in Chicago anymore and hearing the Brahms Violin Concerto in the elevator. Because that shows me that when they come to the conce….

In the beginning, there was silence. And out of the silence came the sound. The sound is not here..

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

Jewish intellectuals contributed a great deal to insure that Europe became a continent of humanism, and it is with these humanist ideals that Europe ….

The French Revolution gave us three... powerful ideas, or concepts - liberty, equality and fraternity. But these ideas... are not only right in thems….

Today, conducting is a question of ego: a lot of people believe they are actually playing the music..

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….

The Germans are prisoners of their past..

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….

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