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

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.

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.

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 concert hall they listen to it in the same way.

His hope wasn't lost, it was buried, and somehow Prudence Ryland made that old grave seem much more shallow than it once was.

You'll never cross an emotional bridge, if you keep rushing back to the other side.

The lonely people have taught me, that I am not alone.

If we can spend more time uprooting vices and rooting virtues, our world will be safer and better.

Professional life is like a fire hydrant. You spend all of your time putting out fires and standing your ground against the big dogs.

I want people to be overwhelmed with light and color in a way they have never experienced.

But it's a poor fellow who can't take his pleasure without asking other people's permission.

Now you see me, now you don't. George thinks he will, but I know he won't!

Every tragedy of the human experience can be attributed to one human decision - the decision to withdraw from each other.