60 Quotes From Daniel Barenboim | Status Free Download
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In the beginning, there was silence. And out of the silence came the sound. The sound is not here.
— Daniel Barenboim
To play four hands requires two people who have great affinity for each other.
— Daniel Barenboim
The tempo is the suitcase. If the suitcase is too small, everything is completely wrinkled. If the tempo is too fast, everything becomes so scrambled you can't understand it.
— Daniel Barenboim
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.
— Daniel Barenboim
Beethoven's importance in music has been principally defined by the revolutionary nature of his compositions. He freed music from hitherto prevailing conventions of harmony and structure.
— Daniel Barenboim
I would like to be a terrorist for music education - to make a complete reform, all over the world.
— Daniel Barenboim
Now the first step has to be taken, the step towards democracy. This step is full of risks, and requires trust on all sides. We don't know where it will lead. But if we just stand still, we will have no chance of escaping the violence.
— Daniel Barenboim
Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.
— Daniel Barenboim
Anti-Semitism has no historical, political and certainly no philosophical origins. Anti-Semitism is a disease.
— Daniel Barenboim
US presidents can make all the commitments and declarations they want until they are blue in the face, in the Muslim world they will always be perceived as partisan.
— Daniel Barenboim
Beethoven's music tends to move from chaos to order, as if order were an imperative of human existence.
— Daniel Barenboim
In my mother's belly, I remember not liking the tempi my father played the Beethoven Sonatas in.
— Daniel Barenboim
There are wonderful restaurants in London. I love Indian food and I like Arab food, and I go very often to the Arab restaurant Noura.
— Daniel Barenboim
I have music in my brain all the time, all sorts.
— Daniel Barenboim
I love conducting. What I'm tired of is music administration. I don't want that. I just want to make music.
— Daniel Barenboim
The Barenboim Foundation has nothing to do with politics.
— Daniel Barenboim
You can't expect someone born into a family with no music... to understand when I'm conducting the Schoenberg Variations.
— Daniel Barenboim
I maintain music is not here to make us forget about life. It's also here to teach us about life: the fact that everything starts and ends, the fact that every sound is in danger of disappearing, the fact that everything is connected - the fact that we live and we die.
— Daniel Barenboim
Music means different things to different people and sometimes even different things to the same person at different moments of his life.
— Daniel Barenboim
When playing music, it is possible to achieve a unique sense of peace.
— Daniel Barenboim
In Arab culture, music is for celebration. You don't play music at funerals.
— Daniel Barenboim
The problem with listening to music today is that there's so much of it everywhere. We've got used to hearing music without actually listening to it.
— Daniel Barenboim
I cannot be music director at La Scala and at Staatsoper. This would be unfair to one of the two institutions.
— Daniel Barenboim
When I played my first concert with an orchestra, I was eight years old in Berlin.
— Daniel Barenboim
I am the conductor for life of the Staatskapelle in Berlin, which fills me with tremendous joy because I feel absolutely at one with them. When we play, I have a feeling that together we manage to create one collective lung for the whole orchestra so that everybody in the stage breathes the music in the same way.
— Daniel Barenboim
I am permanently relaxed.
— Daniel Barenboim
I don't believe in changing the unchangeable.
— Daniel Barenboim
I was never really interested in an operatic post, but I took on the Bastille because it seemed a unique opportunity to build an opera ensemble from scratch, and to deal with all the disciplines that go into opera - the music, the staging and the singing - in an interrelated way.
— Daniel Barenboim
I don't think I'm anti-Israeli.
— Daniel Barenboim
I know so many Irish musicians. They're all over, because there has been so much emigration from Ireland. Like the Jews.
— Daniel Barenboim
I think that our civilisation is very much a visual civilisation - television and videos and all this.
— Daniel Barenboim
You find Jews, Irish, and Italians in every orchestra.
— Daniel Barenboim
Music is an art that touches the depth of human existence; an art of sounds that crosses all borders.
— Daniel Barenboim
The greatness of a musician is measured by the degree of fanaticism he brings to his playing.
— Daniel Barenboim
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.
— Daniel Barenboim
It is always interesting and sometimes even important to have intimate knowledge of a composer's life, but it is not essential in order to understand the composer's works.
— Daniel Barenboim
The Iranian government still denies the Holocaust - so you can't take them seriously. And the Israeli government spreads rumours and disinformation about Iran - because it needs to for the creation of panic. I find these theological states - and in this respect, Israel and Iran are twin brothers - very, very dangerous.
— Daniel Barenboim
Tradition demands that we not speak poorly of the dead.
— Daniel Barenboim
There is too much employer-employee relationship in America. I wish the musicians would feel that many decisions have to do with them and not delegate everything to management or to the board or to the committee. This is why you get a sense of pride in some of the European orchestras: because they are part of the decision-making.
— Daniel Barenboim
Sound is often talked about in a very subjective way, as if it had a colour. This is a bright sound, this is a dark sound. I don't believe in that because I think that is much too subjective.
— Daniel Barenboim
Jewish intellectuals contributed a great deal to insure that Europe became a continent of humanism, and it is with these humanist ideals that Europe must now intervene in the Middle East conflict.
— Daniel Barenboim
To have real knowledge, one must understand the essence of things and not only their manifestations.
— Daniel Barenboim
I liked very much when we lived in Hampstead. We would go for walks on the Heath. I liked it better than living in the centre of town.
— Daniel Barenboim
It's funny, because in 1970 I met the Beatles quite by a chance at a party. It was the Beethoven bicentenary, and I was then also playing the Beethoven Sonatas. And that's all they wanted to hear about - I wanted to talk about them, and all they wanted to talk about was Beethoven.
— Daniel Barenboim
What the world is saying to us human beings is, 'Don't stick to the old ways, learn to think anew.' And that's what musicians do every day.
— Daniel Barenboim
When you love somebody and they die young and you are young, too, it is very hard.
— Daniel Barenboim
I can't stand going out to one more dinner with some Mrs. So-and-So who might leave a million dollars to the Chicago Symphony Orchestra when she dies.
— Daniel Barenboim
For many people, music is here to let them forget the daily chores of life.
— Daniel Barenboim
Once you start playing a piece, there is a connection between every note. You cannot say, 'I will not concentrate on this note.' You cannot ignore things the way you do in the rest of your life.
— Daniel Barenboim
Beethoven was a deeply political man in the broadest sense of the word. He was not interested in daily politics, but concerned with questions of moral behaviour and the larger questions of right and wrong affecting the entire society.
— Daniel Barenboim
You used to queue for three days and two nights for tickets for Rubinstein. People stayed in the queue for the whole day.
— Daniel Barenboim
I have loved Elliott Carter's music for many years.
— Daniel Barenboim
When you get to be 103, modernism is a very wide concept.
— Daniel Barenboim
Controversial means somebody who makes people think. And if you are afraid of people who will be against you, you might as well stay home and do nothing.
— Daniel Barenboim
I used to conduct the last opera in Berlin on Sunday, get on a plane on Monday to Chicago, and start a rehearsal that same night, if it was a performance week.
— Daniel Barenboim
I have accumulated so many experiences, so much, that I want to be able to realize so many things. This is why I have basically given up most of my positions.
— Daniel Barenboim
Most of the time I spend looking for the 25th hour in the day, the ninth day in the week, the 32nd day in the month and the 367th, eighth or 70th day in the year because I feel I have a very rich life.
— Daniel Barenboim
I don't like possessions.
— Daniel Barenboim
Israel is in the grip of a ghetto mentality. We have a powerful army. We have the atomic bomb. But the psychology of what comes out of Israel has the tone of the Warsaw Ghetto.
— Daniel Barenboim
I think Sharon is anti-Israeli because it's in the interest of Israel to understand the problems of the other side.
— Daniel Barenboim
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