Quotes by argentinian authors

It's funny, because in 1970 I met the Beatles quite by a chance at a party. It was the Beethoven bicentenary, and I was then also playing the Beethoven Sonatas. And that's all they wanted to hear about - I wanted to talk about them, and all they wanted to talk about was Beethoven. Daniel Barenboim

Funny Beatles Party Met About Talk Also Because Hear Beethoven Quite Wanted Them Then Playing Chance

I have music in my brain all the time, all sorts. Daniel Barenboim

Music Time Sort Brain

When you love somebody and they die young and you are young, too, it is very hard. Daniel Barenboim

Love You Somebody Young Too Very Die Hard

I love conducting. What I'm tired of is music administration. I don't want that. I just want to make music. Daniel Barenboim

Love Music Tired Administration Make Conducting Just Want

The Barenboim Foundation has nothing to do with politics. Daniel Barenboim

Politics Nothing Foundation

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. Daniel Barenboim

I would like to be a terrorist for music education - to make a complete reform, all over the world. Daniel Barenboim

Education Music World Complete Would Over Like Make Terrorist Reform

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. Daniel Barenboim

I cannot be music director at La Scala and at Staatsoper. This would be unfair to one of the two institutions. Daniel Barenboim

Music Director Unfair Music Director Would Would-Be Institutions La Cannot Two

I used to conduct the last opera in Berlin on Sunday, get on a plane on Monday to Chicago, and start a rehearsal that same night, if it was a performance week. Daniel Barenboim

Sunday Monday Berlin Week Performance Opera Chicago Conduct Get Same Plane Used Rehearsal Start Last Night

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

Life Music Me Together Joy Collective Feeling Stage Everybody Tremendous Way Berlin Absolutely Feel Because Am Conductor Manage Same Orchestra Which Them Breathes Create Whole Fills Play Lung

I am permanently relaxed. Daniel Barenboim

Relaxed Permanently Am

I don't believe in changing the unchangeable. Daniel Barenboim

Believe Changing Unchangeable

I was never really interested in an operatic post, but I took on the Bastille because it seemed a unique opportunity to build an opera ensemble from scratch, and to deal with all the disciplines that go into opera - the music, the staging and the singing - in an interrelated way. Daniel Barenboim

I think Sharon is anti-Israeli because it's in the interest of Israel to understand the problems of the other side. Daniel Barenboim

Problems Think Other Side Sharon Because Understand Israel Interest

Music is an art that touches the depth of human existence; an art of sounds that crosses all borders. Daniel Barenboim

Music Art Borders Crosses Sounds Existence Human Human Existence Depth

You find Jews, Irish, and Italians in every orchestra. Daniel Barenboim

You Every Jews Find Italians Irish Orchestra

I think that our civilisation is very much a visual civilisation - television and videos and all this. Daniel Barenboim

Videos Think Our Television Visual Civilisation Very Much

'Tristan' is a very unique case, not just in Wagner's output, but in music in general. It remains contemporary no matter what else surrounds it. There is something self-renewing about it. Daniel Barenboim

Music Matter Else About Case Something General Output Remains Contemporary Wagner Very Surrounds Just Unique

You have to really have the will to hang onto the first note as it is being played, and then really stay with it and take the flight, as it were, you know, for the duration of the piece. Daniel Barenboim

You Will First Stay Onto Take Know Piece Were Duration Hang Being Note Then Really Flight Played

Every note is a lifetime for itself. Daniel Barenboim

Every Lifetime Itself Note