Daniel Barenboim Quotes
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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 Israeli people and the Palestinian people are inextricably linked.
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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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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.
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I'm not naive. I know perfectly well that there isn't a single Arab or Muslim in the world who would say: There has to be a Jewish state in the Middle East.
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Anti-Semitism has no historical, political and certainly no philosophical origins. Anti-Semitism is a disease.
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Music has the capacity to create a greater reality.
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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.
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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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Not only has the eyes taken over, but we have anaesthetised the ears through all the muzak that we hear all the time.
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I don't believe that the entire world is constantly anti-Semitic.
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Israel's strategy cannot be to constantly confront the Palestinians with the history of the Holocaust, but instead to show them that Israel is a reality.
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I have heard Ori Kam on several occasions over the last few years and have always been deeply impressed with his playing. He possesses a rare combination of musical talent, technical facility, intelligence, and charisma, and he is undoubtedly one of the most extraordinary young artists I have heard in recent years.
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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 who dream of going to bed at night and waking up the next morning to find the Israelis gone.
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To have real knowledge, one must understand the essence of things and not only their manifestations.
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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 an oral guide, we have to provide it ourselves. One reason why active listening is absolutely essential.
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You can't expect someone born into a family with no music...to understand when I'm conducting the Schönberg Variations.
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Every great work of art has two faces, one towards its own time and one towards future, towards eternity.
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Tradition demands that we not speak poorly of the dead.
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Wagner exploited all forms of expression at a composer's disposal - harmony, dynamics, orchestration - to the extreme. His music is highly emotional, and at the same time Wagner has extraordinary control over the effect he achieves.
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If a man dreams about sleeping with Marilyn Monroe, he's certainly entitled to that. But when he wakes up, he has to acknowledge that he is married to someone else.
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When playing music, it is possible to achieve a unique sense of peace.
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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.
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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 hear.
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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 than the Holocaust.
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The Steinway piano is such an incomparable instrument. Due to its virtues, I am able to express all my musical feelings.
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In the long term, Israel's security rests on only one pillar: the Palestinians' acceptance of the country. It isn't the atom bomb that makes Israel secure.
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The Germans are prisoners of their past.
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In times of totalitarian or autocratic rule, music (indeed culture in general) is often the only avenue of independent thought. It is the only way people can meet as equals, and exchange ideas. Culture then becomes primarily the voice of the oppressed and it takes over from politics as a driving force for change.
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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 and a half months advance over the eye...(but) what do we do in our society, in our civilisation, to continue this process?
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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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