Latest Daniel Barenboim Quotes from Interviews

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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.

  Daniel Barenboim

  Dream, Morning, Night

  Interview with Joachim Kronsbein and Bernhard Zand, www.spiegel.de. June 22, 2012.

• 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.

  Daniel Barenboim

  Dream, Sleep, Men

  "The Germans Are Prisoners of Their Past". SPIEGEL interview, www.spiegel.de. June 22, 2012.

• 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.

  Daniel Barenboim

  Reality, Israel, Holocaust

  "The Germans Are Prisoners of Their Past". SPIEGEL interview, www.spiegel.de. June 22, 2012.

• 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.

  Daniel Barenboim

  Middle East, World, States

  Interview with Joachim Kronsbein and Bernhard Zand, www.spiegel.de. June 22, 2012.

• I have the greatest respect for the survivors of the Holocaust. We can't even imagine what these people went through.

  Daniel Barenboim

  People, Holocaust, Survivor

  "The Germans Are Prisoners of Their Past". Interview with Joachim Kronsbein and Bernhard Zand, www.spiegel.de. June 22, 2012.

• 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.

  Daniel Barenboim

  Emotional, Expression, Dynamics

  Interview with Joachim Kronsbein and Bernhard Zand, www.spiegel.de. June 22, 2012.

• There are probably many people in Israel who believe that Wagner, who died in 1883, lived in Berlin in 1942 and was friends with Hitler.

  Daniel Barenboim

  Believe, Israel, People

  Interview with Joachim Kronsbein and Bernhard Zand, www.spiegel.de. June 22, 2012.

• 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.

  Daniel Barenboim

  Israel, Holocaust, Establishment

  "The Germans Are Prisoners of Their Past". Interview with Joachim Kronsbein and Bernhard Zand translated by Christopher Sultan, www.spiegel.de. June 22, 2012.

• An Israeli who thinks that his government is doing everything right wouldn't join the Divan Orchestra in the first place.

  Daniel Barenboim

  Thinking, Government, Orchestra

  "The Germans Are Prisoners of Their Past". Interview with Joachim Kronsbein and Bernhard Zand, www.spiegel.de. June 22, 2012.

• I don't believe that the entire world is constantly anti-Semitic.

  Daniel Barenboim

  Believe, World, Anti Semitic

  "'The Germans Are Prisoners of Their Past'". Interview with Joachim Kronsbein, www.spiegel.de. June 22, 2012.

• Germany will never be a real, free thinking and free feeling friend of Israel, because it will always fall under this shadow.

  Daniel Barenboim

  Real, Fall, Thinking

  "'The Germans Are Prisoners of Their Past'". Interview with Joachim Kronsbein and Bernhard Zand, www.spiegel.de. June 22, 2012.

• The Germans are prisoners of their past.

  Daniel Barenboim

  Past, Prisoner

  Interview with Joachim Kronsbein and Bernhard Zand, www.spiegel.de. June 22, 2012.

• 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.

  Daniel Barenboim

  Country, Acceptance, Israel

  "The Germans Are Prisoners of Their Past". Interview with Joachim Kronsbein and Bernhard Zand, www.spiegel.de. June 22, 2012.