Quotes by Daniel Barenboim

Daniel Barenboim

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?

Eye

Listening

Pregnancy

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

Art

Future

Two

Germany will never be a real, free thinking and free feeling friend of Israel, because it will always fall under this shadow.

Fall

Real

Thinking

I don’t believe that the entire world is constantly anti-Semitic.

Anti Semitic

Believe

World

In the long term, Israel’s security rests on only one pillar: the Palestinians’ acceptance of the country. It isn’t the atom bomb that makes Israel secure.

Acceptance

Country

Israel

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.

Ideas

Independent

Voice

Music has the capacity to create a greater reality.

Capacity

Greater

Reality

Not only has the eyes taken over, but we have anaesthetised the ears through all the muzak that we hear all the time.

Eye

Listening

Taken

The ear plays the role of the guide in the museum in the concert I’m taking now. We don’t have an oral guide, we have to provide it ourselves. One reason why active listening is absolutely essential.

Listening

Museums

Play

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.

Ideas

Order

Powerful

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Acceptance

Achieve

Anti Semitic

Art

Believe

Born

Capacity

Conducting

Country

Death

Demand

Dynamics

Ego

Emotional

Ends

Essence

Expression

Eye

Fall

Future

Greater

Ideas

Independent

Israel

Listening

Manifestation

Museums

Notes

Order

Past

People

Play

Playing Music

Powerful

Pregnancy

Prisoner

Real

Reality

Silence

Taken

Talking

Thinking

Two

Unique

Variation

Voice

World

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Quotes by Daniel Barenboim

Daniel Barenboim

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?

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

Germany will never be a real, free thinking and free feeling friend of Israel, because it will always fall under this shadow.

I don’t believe that the entire world is constantly anti-Semitic.

In the long term, Israel’s security rests on only one pillar: the Palestinians’ acceptance of the country. It isn’t the atom bomb that makes Israel secure.

Music has the capacity to create a greater reality.

Not only has the eyes taken over, but we have anaesthetised the ears through all the muzak that we hear all the time.

The ear plays the role of the guide in the museum in the concert I’m taking now. We don’t have an oral guide, we have to provide it ourselves. One reason why active listening is absolutely essential.

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