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"In times of totalitarian or autocratic rule, music (indeed culture in general) is often the only avenue of independent thought. It is the only way people can meet as equals, and exchange ideas. Culture then becomes primarily the voice of the oppressed..."
~ Daniel Barenboim
~ Daniel Barenboim
"An hour of violin lessons in Berlin is an hour where you get the child interested in music. An hour in a violin lesson in Palestine is an hour away from violence, is an hour away from fundamentalism."
~ Daniel Barenboim
~ Daniel Barenboim
"... playing in an orchestra intelligently is the best school for democracy. ... The art of playing in an orchestra is being able to express yourself to the maximum but always in relation to something else that is going on."
~ Daniel Barenboim
~ Daniel Barenboim
"In the beginning, there was silence. And out of the silence came the sound. The sound is not here."
~ Daniel Barenboim
~ Daniel Barenboim
"Music has the capacity to create a greater reality."
~ Daniel Barenboim
~ Daniel Barenboim
"When playing music, it is possible to achieve a unique sense of peace."
~ Daniel Barenboim
~ 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."
~ Daniel Barenboim
~ Daniel Barenboim
"Every great work of art has two faces, one towards its own time and one towards future, towards eternity."
~ Daniel Barenboim
~ Daniel Barenboim
"Music means different things to different people and sometimes even different things to the same person at different moments of his life."
~ Daniel Barenboim
~ Daniel Barenboim
"And in English you have this wonderful difference between listening and hearing, and that you can hear without listening, and you can listen and not hear."
~ Daniel Barenboim
~ Daniel Barenboim
