The Germans Are Prisoners Of Their Past.

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.

An Israeli Who Thinks That His Government Is Doing Everything Right Wouldn't Join The Divan Orchestra In The First Place.

You Can't Expect Someone Born Into A Family With No Music...to Understand When I'm Conducting The Schönberg Variations.

Germany Will Never Be A Real, Free Thinking And Free Feeling Friend Of Israel, Because It Will Always Fall Under This Shadow.

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 Because I Think That Is Much Too Subjective.