In times of totalitarian or autocratic rule, music (indeed culture in general) is often the only avenue of independent thought. It is the only way people can meet as equals, and exchange ideas. Culture then becomes primarily the voice of… — 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 and everybody in the orchestra follows you. Then, a few bars later, the main voice goes to another… — 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
