140 Quotes by 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.

I maintain music is not here to make us forget about life. It's also here to teach us about life: the fact that everything starts and ends, the fact that every sound is in danger of disappearing, the fact that everything is connected - the fact that we live and we die.

Once you start playing a piece, there is a connection between every note. You cannot say, 'I will not concentrate on this note.' You cannot ignore things the way you do in the rest of your life.

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

Beethoven was a deeply political man in the broadest sense of the word. He was not interested in daily politics, but concerned with questions of moral behaviour and the larger questions of right and wrong affecting the entire society.

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

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

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

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