"Beethoven was a deeply political man in the……" — Daniel Barenboim
"Beethoven was a deeply political man in the broadest sense of the word. He was not interested in daily politics, but concerned with questions of moral behaviour and the larger questions of right and wrong affecting the entire society."
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31 Quotes by Daniel Barenboim
Daniel Barenboim has 31 quotes on this site.
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Anti-Semitism has no historical, political and certainly no philosophical origins. Anti-Semitism is a disease.
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Tradition demands that we not speak poorly of the dead.
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I love conducting. What I'm tired of is music administration. I don't want that. I just want to make music.
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You can't expect someone born into a family with no music... to understand when I'm conducting the Schoenberg Variations.
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Now the first step has to be taken, the step towards democracy. This step is full of risks, and requires…
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I hope that my new status will be an example of Israeli-Palestinian co-existence, I believe that the destinies of the…
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The ear plays the role of the guide in the museum in the concert I'm taking now. We don't have…
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Not only has the eyes taken over, but we have anaesthetised the ears through all the muzak that we hear…
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And in English you have this wonderful difference between listening and hearing, and that you can hear without listening, and…
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But the ear, let us not forget, starts operating on the forty-fifth day of the pregnancy of a woman. Seven…
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Jewish intellectuals contributed a great deal to insure that Europe became a continent of humanism, and it is with these…
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The Steinway piano is such an incomparable instrument. Due to its virtues, I am able to express all my musical…
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Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies; but the compelling force of…
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FOR a long time the conviction has been dimly felt in the community that, without prejudice to existing institutions, the…
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In the hands of a great poet, words have ways of affecting us in ways we don't understand.
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Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty.
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I think smells, like sounds, can be so much immediately affecting.
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A radical generally meant a man who thought he could somehow pull up the root without affecting the flower. A…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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We just need the laws to change - it's 2012," JWoww said to MTV News. "I want to see my…
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It is normal to enjoy praise and dislike criticism. True character is when you prevent either from affecting you in…
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If there was special interests affecting police work, I believe that would be called corruption. So, if it has do…
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The sober people of America are weary of the fluctuating policy which has directed the public councils. They have seen…
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Teachers may think they are stuffing minds, but all they are ever affecting is the memory. Nothing can ever be…
— Mortimer Adler
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We look in our own backyard and say, 'How do we help at-risk families, at risk youth? How do we…
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