Daniel Barenboim Quotes

Argentinian - Musician | November 15, 1942 -

Live life to the full, and become more curious every day. The more you find out about life, the richer your music-making will be.

Daniel Barenboim

LifeLiveLive LifeDayCuriousYou

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

Daniel Barenboim

PoliticalHistoricalDiseaseOrigins

Controversial means somebody who makes people think. And if you are afraid of people who will be against you, you might as well stay home and do nothing.

Daniel Barenboim

HomePeopleThinkYouNothingWill

I'm one of the ones who believed the Iraq War was a complete mistake from the very beginning.

Daniel Barenboim

BeginningMistakeWarCompleteWho

Jewish intellectuals contributed a great deal to insure that Europe became a continent of humanism, and it is with these humanist ideals that Europe must now intervene in the Middle East conflict.

Daniel Barenboim

GreatConflictNowJewishEurope

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

Daniel Barenboim

LifeMusicPeopleMomentsPerson

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

Daniel Barenboim

LifeMusicDailyPeopleForgetHere

Sound is often talked about in a very subjective way, as if it had a colour. This is a bright sound, this is a dark sound. I don't believe in that because I think that is much too subjective.

Daniel Barenboim

BelieveThinkDarkWayBrightSound

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

DayWorldSayingThinkMusicians

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

Daniel Barenboim

LoveDieYouYoungHardSomebody

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.

Daniel Barenboim

DailyPoliticsManSocietyPolitical

You used to queue for three days and two nights for tickets for Rubinstein. People stayed in the queue for the whole day.

Daniel Barenboim

DayPeopleYouThreeTwoDays

123456Next pageLast

Related Authors

Copyright © 2024 QuotesDict Daniel Barenboim quotes