Daniel Barenboim quotes Born: 11/15/1942 Country: israel

• Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity. (Daniel Barenboim) [art/time/future]
• Anti-Semitism has no historical, political and certainly no philosophical origins. Anti-Semitism is a disease. (Daniel Barenboim)
• In the beginning, there was silence. And out of the silence came the sound. The sound is not here. (Daniel Barenboim)
• 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)
• 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)
• 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)
• The tempo is the suitcase. If the suitcase is too small, everything is completely wrinkled. If the tempo is too fast, everything becomes so scrambled you can't understand it. (Daniel Barenboim)
• 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)
• Tradition demands that we not speak poorly of the dead. (Daniel Barenboim)
• 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)

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