Daniel Barenboim Quotes

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• Music has the capacity to create a greater reality.

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  Reality, Capacity, Greater

  "Daniel Barenboim: 'Spaces of dialogue'". "The Frost Interview", www.aljazeera.com. August 04, 2013.

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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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  Mean, People, Different

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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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  Art, Future, Two

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• When playing music, it is possible to achieve a unique sense of peace.

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  Unique, Playing Music, Achieve

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

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  Real, Essence, Manifestation

  Interview with Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. November 02, 2012.

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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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  Silence, Ends, Notes

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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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  Differences, Listening, Hearing

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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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  Children, Lessons, Violin

  "Europe has to take the initiative now". Interview with Luke Harding, www.theguardian.com. November 30, 2004.

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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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  Independent, Ideas, Voice

  Reith Lectures: In the Beginning was Sound, downloads.bbc.co.uk. 2006.

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• Anti-Semitism has no historical, political and certainly no philosophical origins. Anti-Semitism is a disease.

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  Philosophical, Racism, Political

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• The French Revolution gave us three... powerful ideas, or concepts - liberty, equality and fraternity. But these ideas... are not only right in themselves, but they are so because they come in the proper order. You cannot have equality without liberty, and you certainly cannot have fraternity without equality. The importance of this I learnt from music, because music evolves in time, and therefore the order inevitably determines the content.

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  Powerful, Order, Ideas

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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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  Taken, Eye, Listening

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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 you can't understand it.

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  Suitcases, Tempo, Ifs

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• I always maintain that playing in an orchestra intelligently is the best school for democracy. If you play a solo, the conductor and everybody in the orchestra follows you. Then, a few bars later, the main voice goes to another instrument, another group, and then you have to go back into the collective [sound]. The art of playing in an orchestra is being able to express yourself to the maximum but always in relation to something else that is going on.

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  Art, School, Play

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• I can't stand being in Chicago anymore and hearing the Brahms Violin Concerto in the elevator. Because that shows me that when they come to the concert hall they listen to it in the same way.

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  Chicago, Violin, Way

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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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  Pregnancy, Eye, Listening

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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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  Silence, Sound, Corny

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• The Germans are prisoners of their past.

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  Past, Prisoner

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

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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 must now intervene in the Middle East conflict.

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  Europe, Middle East, Conflict

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• Today, conducting is a question of ego: a lot of people believe they are actually playing the music.

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  Believe, People, Ego

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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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  Believe, Dark, Thinking

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• 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.

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  Commitment, Eye, Blue

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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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  Artist, Years, Musical

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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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  Believe, Destiny, Racism

  "The artist as leader" by Mark Braund, www.theguardian.com. February 17, 2008.

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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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  Piano, Feelings, Musical

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