"Wagner exploited all forms of expression at a composer's disposal -- harmony, dynamics, orchestration -- to the extre…"

"I think it’s obvious that Wagner’s anti-Semitic views and writings are monstrous. There is no way around that. And I …"

"The Declaration of Independence was a source of inspiration to believe in ideals that transformed us from Jews to Isr…"

"Despite the fact that as an art, music cannot compromise its principles, and politics, on the other hand, is the art …"

"I am a Palestinian ..… and an Israeli … So you see it is possible to be both. … Everyone has to understand that the P…"

"Every musician here has played these pieces many times, sometimes hundreds of times. Yesterday we looked at this musi…"

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

"Music has the capacity to create a greater reality."

"The thing about Wagner is we’re always wrong about him, because he always embraces opposites … There are things in hi…"

"I have lived as a Jew in Berlin for the past 23 years, something that would not have been possible if I did not belie…"