I would like to be a terrorist for music education - to make a complete reform, all over the world.
From 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.
Beethoven's music tends to move from chaos to order, as if order were an imperative of human existence.
To have real knowledge, one must understand the essence of things and not only their manifestations.
I liked very much when we lived in Hampstead. We would go for walks on the Heath. I liked it better than living in the centre of town.
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.
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.
Music means different things to different people and sometimes even different things to the same person at different moments of his life.
In the beginning, there was silence. And out of the silence came the sound. The sound is not here.
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.
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