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Daniel Barenboim (Conductor)

Anti-Semitism has no historical, political and certainly no philosophical origins. Anti-Semitism is a disease.
— Daniel Barenboim philosophical
Music means different things to different people and sometimes even different things to the same person at different moments of his life.
— Daniel Barenboim life
To have real knowledge, one must understand the essence of things and not only their manifestations.
— Daniel Barenboim knowledge
Tradition demands that we not speak poorly of the dead.
— Daniel Barenboim man
What the world is saying to us human beings is, 'Don't stick to the old ways, learn to think anew.' And that's what musicians do every day.
— Daniel Barenboim music
An hour of violin lessons in Berlin is an hour where you get the child interested in music. An hour in a violin lesson in Palestine is an hour away from violence, is an hour away from fundamentalism.
— Daniel Barenboim music
When playing music, it is possible to achieve a unique sense of peace.
— Daniel Barenboim music
Beethoven's music tends to move from chaos to order, as if order were an imperative of human existence.
— Daniel Barenboim music
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 silence
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 wanted to talk about was Beethoven.
— Daniel Barenboim funny
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 war
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 we live and we die.
— Daniel Barenboim life
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.
— Daniel Barenboim you
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.
— Daniel Barenboim politics
For many people, music is here to let them forget the daily chores of life.
— Daniel Barenboim life
I love conducting. What I'm tired of is music administration. I don't want that. I just want to make music.
— Daniel Barenboim love
In the beginning, there was silence. And out of the silence came the sound. The sound is not here.
— Daniel Barenboim silence
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.
— Daniel Barenboim believe
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.
— Daniel Barenboim man
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 life
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 be perceived as partisan.
— Daniel Barenboim art
You can't expect someone born into a family with no music... to understand when I'm conducting the Schoenberg Variations.
— Daniel Barenboim music
I have music in my brain all the time, all sorts.
— Daniel Barenboim time
I liked very much when we lived in Hampstead. We would go for walks on the Heath. I liked it better than living in the centre of town.
— Daniel Barenboim living

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