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

Music has the capacity to create a greater reality.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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 you can't understand it.

It's bad manners to say " i love you"With a mouth full of lies.

You can start looking for your purpose in life after you have identify who you are

We are a sum total of what we have learned from all who have taught us, both great and small.

I'm glad I was never an heiress.

I want to be with someone who wants to work as much as I do and who respects me like I respect him.

People who don't have gender dysphoria aren't going to catch it by watching me dance on television.

Drugs are delusive; they do not adjust anything.

Did I do anything wrong today," he said, "or has the world always been like this and I've been too wrapped up in myself to notice?

Any man who is not a communist at the age of twenty is a fool. Any man who is still a communist at the age of thirty is an even bigger fool.

When our thoughts are born, Though they be good and humble, one should mind How they are reared, or some will go astray And shame their mother.