In my mother's belly, I remember not liking the tempi my father played the Beethoven Sonatas in. — Daniel Barenboim Copy Share Image
Beethoven was a deeply political man in the broadest sense of the word. He was not interested in daily politics, but concerned… — Daniel Barenboim Copy Share Image
It's funny, because in 1970 I met the Beatles quite by a chance at a party. It was the Beethoven bicentenary, and… — Daniel Barenboim Copy Share Image
Beethoven's importance in music has been principally defined by the revolutionary nature of his compositions. He freed music from hitherto prevailing conventions… — Daniel Barenboim Copy Share Image
Beethoven's music tends to move from chaos to order, as if order were an imperative of human existence. — Daniel Barenboim Copy Share Image
An Israeli who thinks that his government is doing everything right wouldn't join the Divan Orchestra in the first place. — Daniel Barenboim Copy Share Image
The French Revolution gave us three... powerful ideas, or concepts - liberty, equality and fraternity. But these ideas... are not only right in themselves,… — Daniel Barenboim Copy Share Image
In times of totalitarian or autocratic rule, music (indeed culture in general) is often the only avenue of independent thought. It is the only… — Daniel Barenboim Copy Share Image
But the ear, let us not forget, starts operating on the forty-fifth day of the pregnancy of a woman. Seven and a half months… — Daniel Barenboim Copy Share Image
Now the first step has to be taken, the step towards democracy. This step is full of risks, and requires trust on all sides.… — Daniel Barenboim Copy Share Image
There are many types of silence. There is a silence before the note, there is a silence at the end and there is a… — Daniel Barenboim Copy Share Image
You can't expect someone born into a family with no music... to understand when I'm conducting the Schoenberg Variations. — Daniel Barenboim Copy Share Image
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… — Daniel Barenboim Copy Share Image
European anti-Semitism goes much further back than to the partition of Palestine and the establishment of Israel in 1948. It even goes further back… — Daniel Barenboim Copy Share Image
I'm sure that there are many Israelis who dream of waking up one day to find the Palestinians gone. And there are many Palestinians… — Daniel Barenboim Copy Share Image
