Tradition demands that we not speak poorly of the dead.

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.

An item is only worth what someone is willing to pay for it

I pore over every word on the cereal box at breakfast, often more than once. You can ask me anything about shredded wheat.

We should respect all people.

The object of all education is to make folks fit to live.

You didn’t hurt me, the situation did. And now that I know why I felt that way, it won’t hurt.

To me, God says, "I've given you this gift of grace, which means you don't earn your way to heaven. You don't work your way to heaven. You simply receive my gift."

Oh Earth, you gave me all I have, I love you, I love you, - oh what have IThat I can give you in return - Except my body after I die?

When I was growing up, there was no such thing as Off-Broadway. You either got your show on or you didn't.

In my opinion it's a shame that there is so much work in the world.

Israel’s days without Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria, and the Gaza Strip are gone and will not return.