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The Germans are prisoners of their past.
— Daniel Barenboim
Germany will never be a real, free thinking and free feeling friend of Israel, because it will always fall under this shadow.
— Daniel Barenboim
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
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.
— Daniel Barenboim
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.
— Daniel Barenboim
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 Israeli who thinks that his government is doing everything right wouldn't join the Divan Orchestra in the first place.
— Daniel Barenboim
I love conducting. What I'm tired of is music administration. I don't want that. I just want to make music.
— Daniel Barenboim
In the beginning, there was silence. And out of the silence came the sound. The sound is not here.
— Daniel Barenboim
I have music in my brain all the time, all sorts.
— Daniel Barenboim
I don't believe that the entire world is constantly anti-Semitic.
— Daniel Barenboim
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.
— Daniel Barenboim
I have the greatest respect for the survivors of the Holocaust. We can't even imagine what these people went through.
— Daniel Barenboim
The Barenboim Foundation has nothing to do with politics.
— Daniel Barenboim
You can't expect someone born into a family with no music ... to understand when I'm conducting the Schoenberg Variations.
— Daniel Barenboim
In my mother's belly, I remember not liking the tempi my father played the Beethoven Sonatas in.
— Daniel Barenboim
When you love somebody and they die young and you are young, too, it is very hard.
— Daniel Barenboim
Not only has the eyes taken over, but we have anaesthetised the ears through all the muzak that we hear all the time.
— Daniel Barenboim
The Steinway piano is such an incomparable instrument. Due to its virtues, I am able to express all my musical feelings.
— Daniel Barenboim
When playing music, it is possible to achieve a unique sense of peace.
— Daniel Barenboim
For many people, music is here to let them forget the daily chores of life.
— Daniel Barenboim
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.
— Daniel Barenboim
Tradition demands that we not speak poorly of the dead.
— Daniel Barenboim
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.
— Daniel Barenboim
Music has the capacity to create a greater reality.
— Daniel Barenboim
To have real knowledge, one must understand the essence of things and not only their manifestations.
— Daniel Barenboim
I would like to be a terrorist for music education - to make a complete reform, all over the world.
— Daniel Barenboim
Today, conducting is a question of ego: a lot of people believe they are actually playing the music.
— Daniel Barenboim
Beethoven's music tends to move from chaos to order, as if order were an imperative of human existence.
— Daniel Barenboim
