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. Daniel Barenboim More Quotes by Daniel Barenboim More Quotes From Daniel Barenboim Music has the capacity to create a greater reality. Daniel Barenboim greatercapacityreality 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. Daniel Barenboim notessilenceends Every great work of art has two faces, one towards its own time and one towards future, towards eternity. Daniel Barenboim futuretwoart When playing music, it is possible to achieve a unique sense of peace. Daniel Barenboim playing-musicachieveunique The French Revolution gave us three... powerful ideas, or concepts - liberty, equality and fraternity. But these ideas... are not only right in themselves, but they are so because they come in the proper order. You cannot have equality without liberty, and you certainly cannot have fraternity without equality. The importance of this I learnt from music, because music evolves in time, and therefore the order inevitably determines the content. Daniel Barenboim powerfulorderideas Anti-Semitism has no historical, political and certainly no philosophical origins. Anti-Semitism is a disease. Daniel Barenboim philosophicalpoliticalracism And in English you have this wonderful difference between listening and hearing, and that you can hear without listening, and you can listen and not hear. Daniel Barenboim hearingdifferenceslistening An hour of violin lessons in Berlin is an hour where you get the child interested in music. An hour in a violin lesson in Palestine is an hour away from violence, is an hour away from fundamentalism. Daniel Barenboim violinlessonschildren To have real knowledge, one must understand the essence of things and not only their manifestations. Daniel Barenboim manifestationrealessence In times of totalitarian or autocratic rule, music (indeed culture in general) is often the only avenue of independent thought. It is the only way people can meet as equals, and exchange ideas. Culture then becomes primarily the voice of the oppressed and it takes over from politics as a driving force for change. Daniel Barenboim independentvoiceideas Not only has the eyes taken over, but we have anaesthetised the ears through all the muzak that we hear all the time. Daniel Barenboim eyetakenlistening Music means different things to different people and sometimes even different things to the same person at different moments of his life. Daniel Barenboim differentmeanpeople But the ear, let us not forget, starts operating on the forty-fifth day of the pregnancy of a woman. Seven and a half months advance over the eye...(but) what do we do in our society, in our civilisation, to continue this process? Daniel Barenboim eyelisteningpregnancy I can't stand being in Chicago anymore and hearing the Brahms Violin Concerto in the elevator. Because that shows me that when they come to the concert hall they listen to it in the same way. Daniel Barenboim violinchicagoway 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 middle-eastconflicteurope 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. Daniel Barenboim escapingtrusttaken The Steinway piano is such an incomparable instrument. Due to its virtues, I am able to express all my musical feelings. Daniel Barenboim pianomusicalfeelings European anti-Semitism goes much further back than to the partition of Palestine and the establishment of Israel in 1948. It even goes further back than the Holocaust. Daniel Barenboim holocaustestablishmentisrael 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 darkbelievethinking I have heard Ori Kam on several occasions over the last few years and have always been deeply impressed with his playing. He possesses a rare combination of musical talent, technical facility, intelligence, and charisma, and he is undoubtedly one of the most extraordinary young artists I have heard in recent years. Daniel Barenboim musicalartistyears
