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 note is a lifetime for itself.

My point of view is very simple. I think war is no option. Trying to play the same note at the same time, with the same loudness, with the same color, with the same amount of joy, everything the same ... this is a fantastic affair.

In the beginning, there was silence. And out of the silence came the sound. The sound is not here.

Jewish intellectuals contributed a great deal to insure that Europe became a continent of humanism, and it is with these humanist ideals that Europe must now intervene in the Middle East conflict.

I have loved Elliott Carter's music for many years.