Anti semitism Quote by Daniel Barenboim

An Israeli who thinks that his government is doing everything right wouldn't join the Divan Orchestra in the first place.

— 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,…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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.…

— 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…

— Daniel Barenboim

The Barenboim Foundation has nothing to do with politics.

— Daniel Barenboim

You can't expect someone born into a family with no music... to understand when I'm conducting the Schoenberg Variations.

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— Daniel Barenboim

The Germans are prisoners of their past.

— Daniel Barenboim