I cannot be music director at La Scala and at Staatsoper. This would be unfair to one of the two institutions. Daniel Barenboim Read Quote
I would like to be a terrorist for music education – to make a complete reform, all over the world. Daniel Barenboim Read Quote
I used to conduct the last opera in Berlin on Sunday, get on a plane on Monday to Chicago, and start a rehearsal that same night, if it was a performance week. Daniel Barenboim Read Quote
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 Read Quote
The Iranian government still denies the Holocaust – so you can’t take them seriously. And the Israeli government spreads rumours and disinformation about Iran – because it needs to for the creation of panic. I find these theological states – and in this respect, Israel and Iran are twin brothers – very, very dangerous. Daniel Barenboim Read Quote
When I played my first concert with an orchestra, I was eight years old in Berlin. Daniel Barenboim Read Quote
Anti-Semitism has no historical, political and certainly no philosophical origins. Anti-Semitism is a disease. Daniel Barenboim Read Quote
I am convinced that 100 years from now, people will talk about Elliott Carter as one of the most important figures in the second half of 20th-century music. Daniel Barenboim Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
