Best quotes by Daniel Barenboim on Life

Checkout quotes by Daniel Barenboim on Life

  • Music means different things to different people and sometimes even different things to the same person at different moments of his life.
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  • Music is not a profession. Music is a way of life - one that requires much professionalism.
    - Daniel Barenboim
  • I am the conductor for life of the Staatskapelle in Berlin, which fills me with tremendous joy because I feel absolutely at one with them. When we play, I have a feeling that together we manage to create one collective lung for the whole orchestra so that everybody in the stage breathes the music in the same way.
    - Daniel Barenboim
  • For many people, music is here to let them forget the daily chores of life.
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  • I maintain music is not here to make us forget about life. It's also here to teach us about life: the fact that everything starts and ends, the fact that every sound is in danger of disappearing, the fact that everything is connected - the fact that we live and we die.
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  • Once you start playing a piece, there is a connection between every note. You cannot say, 'I will not concentrate on this note.' You cannot ignore things the way you do in the rest of your life.
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  • It is always interesting and sometimes even important to have intimate knowledge of a composer's life, but it is not essential in order to understand the composer's works.
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  • Most of the time I spend looking for the 25th hour in the day, the ninth day in the week, the 32nd day in the month and the 367th, eighth or 70th day in the year because I feel I have a very rich life.
    - Daniel Barenboim