Daniel Barenboim Quotes

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• Anti-Semitism has no historical, political and certainly no philosophical origins. Anti-Semitism is a disease.
• Tradition demands that we not speak poorly of the dead.
• I love conducting. What I'm tired of is music administration. I don't want that. I just want to make music.
• You can't expect someone born into a family with no music... to understand when I'm conducting the Schoenberg Variations.
• 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…
• 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 Palestinian…
• The ear plays the role of the guide in the museum in the concert I'm taking now. We don't have an oral guide, we have…
• Not only has the eyes taken over, but we have anaesthetised the ears through all the muzak that we hear all the time.
• And in English you have this wonderful difference between listening and hearing, and that you can hear without listening, and you can listen and not…
• 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 advance…
• 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…
• The Steinway piano is such an incomparable instrument. Due to its virtues, I am able to express all my musical feelings.
• When playing music, it is possible to achieve a unique sense of peace.
• 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…
• Music has the capacity to create a greater reality.
• In the beginning, there was silence. And out of the silence came the sound. The sound is not here.
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• Every great work of art has two faces, one towards its own time and one towards future, towards eternity.

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