140 Quotes by Daniel Barenboim

Every note is a lifetime for itself.

I am the conductor for life of the Staatskapelle in Berlin, which fills me with tremendous joy because I feel absolutely at one with them. When we play, I have a feeling that together we manage to create one collective lung for the whole orchestra so that everybody in the stage breathes the music in the same way.

We need a certain amount of energy to produce the sound. But then to sustain it, we have to give more energy, or otherwise, it goes and it dies in silence. And therefore, sound is absolutely, inextricably connected to time, the length of time.

I am permanently relaxed.

I feel that the Jews have always had a special connection to this part of the world, which in geographical terms was called Palestine for so many centuries.

To play four hands requires two people who have great affinity for each other.

I think what history has done to Jewish people, frankly, cannot be made good by giving them a piece of land.

When you get to be 103, modernism is a very wide concept.

There is no way Israel will deal with the Palestinians if the Palestinians do not understand the suffering of the Jewish people.