Tradition Demands That We Not Speak Poorly

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.

Every Great Work Of Art Has Two Faces, One Towards Its Own Time And One Towards Future, Towards Eternity.

Music Means Different Things To Different People And Sometimes Even Different Things To The Same Person At Different Moments Of His Life.

I Love Conducting. What I'm Tired Of Is Music Administration. I Don't Want That. I Just Want To Make Music.

I'm Not Naive. I Know Perfectly Well That There Isn't A Single Arab Or Muslim In The World Who Would Say: There Has To Be A Jewish State In The Middle East.