Top 33 Quotes by Daniel Barenboim

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

When playing music, it is possible to achieve a unique sense of peace.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

I can't stand going out to one more dinner with some Mrs. So-and-So who might leave a million dollars to the Chicago Symphony Orchestra when she dies.

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

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.