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

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.

I try to make my comments like a woman's skirt: long enough to be respectable and short enough to be interesting.

The Swendish queen— whose name I couldn’t pronounce to save my life.

Even a whale is concealed by darkness.

Who can live with this Consciousness and not wake frightened at sunrise?

Maybe there is more truth in how you feel than in what actually happens.

It is abnormal for a Christian not to have an appetite for the impossible. It has been written into our spiritual DNA to hunger for the impossibilities around us to bow at the name of Jesus.

In the morning it was morning and I was still alive.

Lies are like sleeping pills. You should only use them when you absolutely have to. They spoil everything if you make a habit of them.

Capital which overreaches for profits; labor which overreaches for wages, or a public which overreaches for bargains will all destroy such other. There is no salvation for us on that road.

My life, at least, is divided between writing and performing and mixtures of the two.