An Israeli Who Thinks That His Government

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.

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 Orchestra Follows You. Then, A Few Bars Later, The Main Voice Goes To Another Instrument, Another Group, And Then You Have To Go Back Into The Collective [sound]. The Art Of Playing In An Orchestra Is Being Able To Express Yourself To The Maximum But Always In Relation To Something Else That Is Going On.

Today, Conducting Is A Question Of Ego: A Lot Of People Believe They Are Actually Playing The Music.

I'm Not Naive. I Know Perfectly Well That There Isn't A Single Arab Or Muslim In The World Who Would Say: There Has To Be A Jewish State In The Middle East.