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The Germans are prisoners of their past.

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

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.

I can't stand going out to one more dinner with some Mrs. So-and-So who might leave a million dollars to the Chicago Symphony Orchestra when she dies.

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 every day.

Music means different things to different people and sometimes even different things to the same person at different moments of his life.

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

I love conducting. What I'm tired of is music administration. I don't want that. I just want to make music.

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

I have music in my brain all the time, all sorts.

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

There are wonderful restaurants in London. I love Indian food and I like Arab food, and I go very often to the Arab restaurant Noura.

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

The Barenboim Foundation has nothing to do with politics.

You can't expect someone born into a family with no music ... to understand when I'm conducting the Schoenberg Variations.

In my mother's belly, I remember not liking the tempi my father played the Beethoven Sonatas in.

When you love somebody and they die young and you are young, too, it is very hard.

Not only has the eyes taken over, but we have anaesthetised the ears through all the muzak that we hear all the time.

The Steinway piano is such an incomparable instrument. Due to its virtues, I am able to express all my musical feelings.

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

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

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.

Tradition demands that we not speak poorly of the dead.

I liked very much when we lived in Hampstead. We would go for walks on the Heath. I liked it better than living in the centre of town.

Music has the capacity to create a greater reality.

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

I would like to be a terrorist for music education - to make a complete reform, all over the world.

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

Beethoven's music tends to move from chaos to order, as if order were an imperative of human existence.

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