140 Quotes by Daniel Barenboim

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

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

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

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.

Tradition demands that we not speak poorly of the dead.

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

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

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

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.