For many people, music is here to let them forget the daily chores of life. — Daniel Barenboim Copy Share Image
When playing music, it is possible to achieve a unique sense of peace. — Daniel Barenboim Copy Share Image
Today, conducting is a question of ego: a lot of people believe they are actually playing the music. — 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
I can't stand being in Chicago anymore and hearing the Brahms Violin Concerto in the elevator. Because that shows me that when… — Daniel Barenboim Copy Share Image
What the world is saying to us human beings is, 'Don't stick to the old ways, learn to think anew.' And that's… — 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
It is always interesting and sometimes even important to have intimate knowledge of a composer's life, but it is not essential in… — Daniel Barenboim Copy Share Image
I love conducting. What I'm tired of is music administration. I don't want that. I just want to make music. — Daniel Barenboim Copy Share Image
Music means different things to different people and sometimes even different things to the same person at different moments of his life. — 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
I maintain music is not here to make us forget about life. It's also here to teach us about life: the fact… — 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
I always maintain that playing in an orchestra intelligently is the best school for democracy. If you play a solo, the conductor… — 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
