Quotes by Daniel Barenboim

About Daniel Barenboim:

Daniel Barenboim is an Argentine pianist and conductor. Currently, he is general music director of La Scala in Milan, the Berlin State Opera, and the Staatskapelle Berlin; he previously served as Music Director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and the Orchestre de Paris. Barenboim is also known for his work with the West–Eastern Divan Orchestra, a Seville-based orchestra of young Arab and Israeli musicians, and as a resolute critic of the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories.
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There are wonderful restaurants in London. I love Indian food and I like Arab food, and I go very often to the Arab restaurant Noura.

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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.

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. We don't know where it will lead. But if we just stand still, we will have no chance of escaping the violence.

Daniel Barenboim

It's funny, because in 1970 I met the Beatles quite by a chance at a party. It was the Beethoven bicentenary, and I was then also playing the Beethoven Sonatas. And that's all they wanted to hear about - I wanted to talk about them, and all they want...

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Tradition demands that we not speak poorly of the dead.

Daniel Barenboim

I would like to be a terrorist for music education - to make a complete reform, all over the world.

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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 now intervene in the Middle East conflict.

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To have real knowledge, one must understand the essence of things and not only their manifestations.

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It is always interesting and sometimes even important to have intimate knowledge of a composer's life, but it is not essential in order to understand the composer's works.

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For many people, music is here to let them forget the daily chores of life.

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I maintain music is not here to make us forget about life. It's also here to teach us about life: the fact that everything starts and ends, the fact that every sound is in danger of disappearing, the fact that everything is connected - the fact that ...

Daniel Barenboim

Once you start playing a piece, there is a connection between every note. You cannot say, 'I will not concentrate on this note.' You cannot ignore things the way you do in the rest of your life.

Daniel Barenboim

Music means different things to different people and sometimes even different things to the same person at different moments of his life.

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When you love somebody and they die young and you are young, too, it is very hard.

Daniel Barenboim

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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Anti-Semitism has no historical, political and certainly no philosophical origins. Anti-Semitism is a disease.

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In the beginning, there was silence. And out of the silence came the sound. The sound is not here.

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 silence in the middle.

Daniel Barenboim

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 sound. I don't believe in that because I think that is much too subjective.

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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 you can't understand it.

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Author Bio

  • NameDaniel Barenboim
  • DescriptionIsraeli Argentine-born pianist and conductor
  • BornNovember 15, 1942
  • CountryArgentina; Israel; Spain; Palestine
  • ProfessionPianist; Conductor
  • AwardsGrand Officer Of The Legion Of Honour; Knight Commander Of The Order Of The British Empire; Grand Order Of Merit With Star And Shoulder-Sash; Ernst Reuter Medal; Bruno Kreisky Award; Princess Of Asturias Award - Concord; Wolf Prize; Praemium Imperiale; Léonie Sonning Music Prize