To have real knowledge, one must understand the essence of things and not only their manifestations.

It is always interesting and sometimes even important to have intimate knowledge of a composer's life, but it is not essential in order to understand the composer's works.

You can't expect someone born into a family with no music... to understand when I'm conducting the Schoenberg Variations.

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 think Sharon is anti-Israeli because it's in the interest of Israel to understand the problems of the other side.

Music means different things to different people and sometimes even different things to the same person at different moments of his life.