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title: "5 Beethoven Quotes By Daniel Barenboim"
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> [In my mother's belly, I remember not liking the tempi my father played the Beethoven Sonatas in.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daniel-barenboim/in-my-mother-s-belly-i-remember-not-liking-the-tempi-my-father-played/)

[Daniel Barenboim](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/daniel-barenboim/)

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> [Beethoven was a deeply political man in the broadest sense of the word. He was not interested in daily politics, but concerned…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daniel-barenboim/beethoven-was-a-deeply-political-man-in-the-broadest-sense-of-the/)

[Daniel Barenboim](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/daniel-barenboim/)

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> [It's funny, because in 1970 I met the Beatles quite by a chance at a party. It was the Beethoven bicentenary, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daniel-barenboim/it-s-funny-because-in-1970-i-met-the-beatles-quite-by-a-chance-at-a/)

[Daniel Barenboim](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/daniel-barenboim/)

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> [Beethoven's importance in music has been principally defined by the revolutionary nature of his compositions. He freed music from hitherto prevailing conventions…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daniel-barenboim/beethoven-s-importance-in-music-has-been-principally-defined-by-the/)

[Daniel Barenboim](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/daniel-barenboim/)

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> [Beethoven's music tends to move from chaos to order, as if order were an imperative of human existence.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daniel-barenboim/beethoven-s-music-tends-to-move-from-chaos-to-order-as-if-order-were/)

[Daniel Barenboim](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/daniel-barenboim/)

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## More by Daniel Barenboim

> [An Israeli who thinks that his government is doing everything right wouldn't join the Divan Orchestra in the first place.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daniel-barenboim/an-israeli-who-thinks-that-his-government-is-doing-everything-right/)

[Daniel Barenboim](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/daniel-barenboim/)

> [The French Revolution gave us three... powerful ideas, or concepts - liberty, equality and fraternity. But these ideas... are not only right in themselves,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daniel-barenboim/the-french-revolution-gave-us-three-powerful-ideas-or-concepts/)

[Daniel Barenboim](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/daniel-barenboim/)

> [In times of totalitarian or autocratic rule, music (indeed culture in general) is often the only avenue of independent thought. It is the only…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daniel-barenboim/in-times-of-totalitarian-or-autocratic-rule-music-indeed-culture-in/)

[Daniel Barenboim](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/daniel-barenboim/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daniel-barenboim/but-the-ear-let-us-not-forget-starts-operating-on-the-forty-fifth-day/)

[Daniel Barenboim](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daniel-barenboim/now-the-first-step-has-to-be-taken-the-step-towards-democracy-this/)

[Daniel Barenboim](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daniel-barenboim/there-are-many-types-of-silence-there-is-a-silence-before-the-note/)

[Daniel Barenboim](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/daniel-barenboim/)

> [The Barenboim Foundation has nothing to do with politics.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daniel-barenboim/the-barenboim-foundation-has-nothing-to-do-with-politics/)

[Daniel Barenboim](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/daniel-barenboim/)

> [You can't expect someone born into a family with no music... to understand when I'm conducting the Schoenberg Variations.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daniel-barenboim/you-can-t-expect-someone-born-into-a-family-with-no-music-to/)

[Daniel Barenboim](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daniel-barenboim/i-can-t-stand-going-out-to-one-more-dinner-with-some-mrs-so-and-so/)

[Daniel Barenboim](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/daniel-barenboim/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daniel-barenboim/european-anti-semitism-goes-much-further-back-than-to-the-partition/)

[Daniel Barenboim](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/daniel-barenboim/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daniel-barenboim/i-m-sure-that-there-are-many-israelis-who-dream-of-waking-up-one-day/)

[Daniel Barenboim](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/daniel-barenboim/)

> [The Germans are prisoners of their past.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daniel-barenboim/the-germans-are-prisoners-of-their-past/)

[Daniel Barenboim](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/daniel-barenboim/)

> [When you love somebody and they die young and you are young, too, it is very hard.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daniel-barenboim/when-you-love-somebody-and-they-die-young-and-you-are-young-too-it-is/)

[Daniel Barenboim](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/daniel-barenboim/)

> [I hope that my new status will be an example of Israeli-Palestinian co-existence, I believe that the destinies of the Israeli people and the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daniel-barenboim/i-hope-that-my-new-status-will-be-an-example-of-israeli-palestinian/)

[Daniel Barenboim](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/daniel-barenboim/)

> [Every great work of art has two faces, one towards its own time and one towards future, towards eternity.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daniel-barenboim/every-great-work-of-art-has-two-faces-one-towards-its-own-time-and/)

[Daniel Barenboim](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/daniel-barenboim/)

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