I wondered if I might not be in the grip of demons, if they were not making me suffer for their own purposes, or simply for their enjoyment.
Music has the capacity to create a greater reality.
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.
Anti-Semitism has no historical, political and certainly no philosophical origins. Anti-Semitism is a disease.
The French Revolution gave us three. . . powerful ideas, or concepts - liberty, equality and fraternity. But these ideas. . . are not only right in themselves, but they are so because they come in the proper order. You cannot have equality without liberty, and you certainly cannot have fraternity without equality. The importance of this I learnt from music, because music evolves in time, and therefore the order inevitably determines the content.
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.
Don't breed, don't buy, don't even accept giveaways.
Blind and unwavering undisciplined at all times constitutes the real strength of all free men.
[Falling pound] makes us more competitive.
Sin is too big to be handled alone.