Daniel Barenboim Quotes

• 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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• 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.

  Daniel Barenboim

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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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• Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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Daniel Barenboim (10)

Birth:	15th November, 1942
Nationality:	Israeli
Profession:	Music Conductor, Pianist

About

Daniel Barenboim was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He is an Israeli pianist and conductor. The Barenboim family moved to Israel in 1952. He is also known for his work with the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, a Seville-based orchestra of young Arab and Israeli musicians, and as a resolute critic of the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories. He has received many awards and prizes, including an honorary Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire. He has won seven Grammy awards for his work and discography. He lives in Berlin.

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