Argentinian - Musician | November 15, 1942 -
To play four hands requires two people who have great affinity for each other.
Daniel Barenboim
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When I played my first concert with an orchestra, I was eight years old in Berlin.
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I have accumulated so many experiences, so much, that I want to be able to realize so many things. This is why I have basically given up most of my positions.
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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.
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Most of the time I spend looking for the 25th hour in the day, the ninth day in the week, the 32nd day in the month and the 367th, eighth or 70th day in the year because I feel I have a very rich life.
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I am permanently relaxed.
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I don't believe in changing the unchangeable.
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I don't like possessions.
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I was never really interested in an operatic post, but I took on the Bastille because it seemed a unique opportunity to build an opera ensemble from scratch, and to deal with all the disciplines that go into opera - the music, the staging and the singing - in an interrelated way.
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I don't think I'm anti-Israeli.
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I think Sharon is anti-Israeli because it's in the interest of Israel to understand the problems of the other side.
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I know so many Irish musicians. They're all over, because there has been so much emigration from Ireland. Like the Jews.
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