I have music in my brain all the time, all sorts.
From Daniel Barenboim
When you love somebody and they die young and you are young, too, it is very hard.
I love conducting. What I'm tired of is music administration. I don't want that. I just want to make music.
I can't stand going out to one more dinner with some Mrs. So-and-So who might leave a million dollars to the Chicago Symphony Orchestra when she dies.
The Barenboim Foundation has nothing to do with politics.
You can't expect someone born into a family with no music... to understand when I'm conducting the Schoenberg Variations.
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.
Beethoven's importance in music has been principally defined by the revolutionary nature of his compositions. He freed music from hitherto prevailing conventions of harmony and structure.
Beethoven was a deeply political man in the broadest sense of the word. He was not interested in daily politics, but concerned with questions of moral behaviour and the larger questions of right and wrong affecting the entire society.
The greatness of a musician is measured by the degree of fanaticism he brings to his playing.
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