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

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.

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 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.

You - you alone will have the stars as no one else has them...

Perfectionism sucks the air out of your uniqueness and leaves you empty, away from who you could become.

Appetite with an opinion of attaining is called hope the same without such opinion despair.

Good enough is never good enough.

Living a good life leads to enduring happiness. Goodness in and of itself is the practice AND the reward.

Grace is but glory begun, and glory is but grace perfected.

There is no good or evil, save in the way you see the world. There is no dark or light save in your own.

Personal & Confidential. Letters so marked should be. When the contents are only printed matter, though, the minifrauder succeeds in sowing illwill & ire.

You take stuff from different places, and sometimes you stick a line in because it rhymes, not because it makes sense.

I think love keeps on changing every day. It’s not black and white and it’s definitely more than 50 shades of grey.