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The Iranian government still denies the Holocaust - so you can't take them seriously. And the Israeli government spreads rumours and disinformation about Iran - because it needs to for the creation of panic. I find these theological states - and in this respect, Israel and Iran are twin brothers - very, very dangerous.

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 from violence, is an hour away from fundamentalism.

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

Music has the capacity to create a greater reality.

US presidents can make all the commitments and declarations they want until they are blue in the face, in the Muslim world they will always be perceived as partisan.

Jewish intellectuals contributed a great deal to insure that Europe became a continent of humanism, and it is with these humanist ideals that Europe must now intervene in the Middle East conflict.

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

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...(but) what do we do in our society, in our civilisation, to continue this process?

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 ear plays the role of the guide in the museum in the concert I'm taking now. We don't have an oral guide, we have to provide it ourselves. One reason why active listening is absolutely essential.

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 Palestinian people are inextricably linked.

Now the first step has to be taken, the step towards democracy. This step is full of risks, and requires trust on all sides. We don't know where it will lead. But if we just stand still, we will have no chance of escaping the violence.

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

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

Tradition demands that we not speak poorly of the dead.

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

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