Argentinian - Musician | November 15, 1942 -
Israel is in the grip of a ghetto mentality. We have a powerful army. We have the atomic bomb. But the psychology of what comes out of Israel has the tone of the Warsaw Ghetto.
Daniel Barenboim
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Music is an art that touches the depth of human existence; an art of sounds that crosses all borders.
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The thing about Wagner is we're always wrong about him, because he always embraces opposites. There are things in his operas which viewed one way are naturalistic, and viewed another way are symbolic, but the problem is you can't represent both views on stage at once.
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Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.
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In the beginning, there was silence. And out of the silence came the sound. The sound is not here.
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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.
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The tempo is the suitcase. If the suitcase is too small, everything is completely wrinkled. If the tempo is too fast, everything becomes so scrambled you can't understand it.
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Tradition demands that we not speak poorly of the dead.
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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.
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Now the first step has to be taken, the step towards democracy. This step is full of risks, and requires trust on all sides. We don't know where it will lead. But if we just stand still, we will have no chance of escaping the violence.
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Beethoven's music tends to move from chaos to order, as if order were an imperative of human existence.
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To have real knowledge, one must understand the essence of things and not only their manifestations.
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