Top 33 Quotes by Daniel Barenboim

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

I would like to be a terrorist for music education - to make a complete reform, all over the world.

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

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

Beethoven's music tends to move from chaos to order, as if order were an imperative of human existence.

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.

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.

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