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

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

I have heard Ori Kam on several occasions over the last few years and have always been deeply impressed with his playing. He possesses a rare combina….

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….

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

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….

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….

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

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..

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….

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

But the ear, let us not forget, starts operating on the forty-fifth day of the pregnancy of a woman. Seven and a half months advance over the eye...(….

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

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..

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

I hope that my new status will be an example of Israeli-Palestinian co-existence, I believe that the destinies of the Israeli people and the Palestin….

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

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….

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….

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