All coaches are thinking men, or else they wouldn't survive.
Music has the capacity to create a greater reality.
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 great work of art has two faces, one towards its own time and one towards future, towards eternity.
Anti-Semitism has no historical, political and certainly no philosophical origins. Anti-Semitism is a disease.
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.
An hour of violin lessons in Berlin is an hour where you get the child interested in music. An hour in a violin lesson in Palestine is an hour away from violence, is an hour away from fundamentalism.
An America where every person, no matter their race, their disability or their sexual orientation realizes the full promise of equality that is our birthright as Americans.
I hate the idea that you shouldn't wear something just because you're a certain age.
What sparks wars? The will to power, the backbone of human nature. The threat of violence, the fear of violence, or actual violence, is the instrument of this dreadful will. You can see the will to power in bedrooms, kitchens, factories, unions and the borders of states. Listen to this and remember it. The nation state is merely human nature inflated to monstrous proportions. QED, nations are entities whose laws are written by violence. Thus it ever was, so ever shall it be.
And so I am feeling numb. It's a curious feeling, and I get it all the time. My attention to the world around me disappears, and something starts to hum inside my head. Far off, voices try to bump up against me, but I repel them. My ears fill up with water and I focus on the humming in my head.