Daniel Barenboim

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

— Daniel Barenboim

#certainly #disease #historical #origins #philosophical

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

— Daniel Barenboim

#eternity #every #faces #future #great

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

— Daniel Barenboim

#came #here #in the beginning #out #silence

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

#conflict #continent #contributed #deal #east

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

#because #believe #bright #colour #dark

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

#completely #everything #fast #scrambled #small

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

#end #many #middle #note #silence

Tradition demands that we not speak poorly of the dead. ↗

— Daniel Barenboim

#dead #demands #poorly #speak #tradition

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

#blue #commitments #declarations #face #make