Jazz of the sort we play is a happy, extroverted music. You don't have to think about it too much.
Chris Barber
We play happy music, and we make people happy. That's why they like us.
Music means different things to different people and sometimes even different things to the same person at different moments of his life.
Daniel Barenboim
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... →
For many people, music is here to let them forget the daily chores of life.
I love conducting. What I'm tired of is music administration. I don't want that. I just want to make music.
When playing music, it is possible to achieve a unique sense of peace.
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... →
Beethoven's music tends to move from chaos to order, as if order were an imperative of human existence.
I have music in my brain all the time, all sorts.