It was oxygen. I was lucky enough to have studied at the Juilliard School in Manhattan, and to have played my debut with Zubin Mehta and the Israeli philharmonic orchestra in Tel Aviv, and it turned out that Gottfried Schlaug had studied as an organist at the Vienna Conservatory, but had given up his love for music to pursue a career in medicine. And that afternoon, I had to ask him, "How was it for you making that decision?"
Bila je opsesija. Bila je kisik. Imao sam sreću studirati na Juilliardu (privatna akademija umjetnosti) na Manhattanu, i svirati svoj prvi koncert sa Zubinom Mehtom i Izraelskim filharmonijskim orkestrom u Tel Avivu i ispostavilo se da je Gottfried Schlaug studirao za orguljaša na Bečkom konzervatoriju, ali je odustao od svoje ljubavi za glazbu da bi nastavio karijeru u medicini. I tog poslijepodneva sam ga upitao: "Kako ti je bilo donijeti takvu odluku?"