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32 quotes by Daniel Barenboim

Website www.danielbarenboim.com Daniel Barenboim (German: [baːrənboim], Hebrew: דניאל ברנבוים; born 15 November 1942) 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,...
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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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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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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... →

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

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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... →

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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... →

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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... →

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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... →

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

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

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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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