“This has been my vocation to make music of what remains.”

“I always find that there is a real communication between voice and violin.”

“I'm a great sports fan, you know. I love to watch tennis and basketball and baseball and so on.”

“'Kol Nidrei' is probably the most important prayer in the Jewish religion. It comes on the evening of Yom Kippur. There are so many different renditions of it.”

“An amazing gift in a young child is, in some ways, an abnormality.”

“It is good medicine to go to a concert hall and forget the harshness of what's going on. It can be a very positive thing.”

“Lost Time is never found again.”

“How you spend your time is more important than how you spend your money. Money mistakes can be corrected, but time is gone forever.”

“Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them.”

“The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is.”

“There are only two ways to live your life: as though nothing is a miracle, or as though everything is a miracle.”

“The moral of the tale is, don't live for the approval of others. The real you is here to find out the secret of life, not to satisfy someone else's opinion.”

“The role of an orchestra in the 21st century isn't just playing, it's about developing future audiences and performers.”