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Daniel Barenboim[a] (born 15 November 1942) is a pianist and conductor who is a citizen of Argentina, Israel, Palestine, and Spain.

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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.

Believe, Dark, Thinking, Bright, Way, Sound

You can't expect someone born into a family with no music. . . to understand when I'm conducting the Schoenberg Variations.

Born, Conducting, Family, Music, Understand, Variation

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.

Ends, Middle, Notes, Silence, Types

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?

Ear, Eye, Listening, Pregnancy, Starts, Woman

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, Bomb, Country, Israel, Rests, Security

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

Administration, Love, Make, Tired, Want

I'm not naive. I know perfectly well that there isn't a single Arab or Muslim in the world who would say: There has to be a Jewish state in the Middle East.

Middle East, Naive, Perfectly, Say, States, World

The Germans are prisoners of their past.

Germans, Past, Prisoner, Prisoners

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

Achieve, Playing, Playing Music, Sense, Unique

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

Art, Eternity, Faces, Future, Two

The Steinway piano is such an incomparable instrument. Due to its virtues, I am able to express all my musical feelings.

Feelings, Musical, Piano, Steinway

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.

Blue, Commitment, Commitments, Eye, Partisan, Perceived

Israel's strategy cannot be to constantly confront the Palestinians with the history of the Holocaust, but instead to show them that Israel is a reality.

Constantly, Holocaust, Instead, Israel, Reality

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.

Active, Listening, Museums, Play, Provide

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.

Chicago, Violin, Way, Hearing, Elevator

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

Beginning, Corny, Silence, Sound

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.

Away, Child, Children, Lessons, Violence, Violin

Anti-Semitism has no historical, political and certainly no philosophical origins. Anti-Semitism is a disease.

Origins, Philosophical, Political, Racism

I always maintain that playing in an orchestra intelligently is the best school for democracy. If you play a solo, the conductor and everybody in the orchestra follows you. Then, a few bars later, the main voice goes to another instrument, another group, and then you have to go back into the collective [sound]. The art of playing in an orchestra is being able to express yourself to the maximum but always in relation to something else that is going on.

Art, Orchestra, School, Solo, Voice

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.

1948, Establishment, European, Holocaust, Israel, Palestine

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