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Top 30 Daniel Barenboim Quotes (2025 Update)

Daniel Barenboim Quote: “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.”

1. “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 Quote: “Music has the capacity to create a greater reality.”

2. “Music has the capacity to create a greater reality.”

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Daniel Barenboim Quote: “In the beginning, there was silence. And out of the silence came the sound. The sound is not here.”

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

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Daniel Barenboim Quote: “Music means different things to different people and sometimes even different things to the same person at different moments of his life.”

4. “Music means different things to different people and sometimes even different things to the same person at different moments of his life.”

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Daniel Barenboim Quote: “When playing music, it is possible to achieve a unique sense of peace.”

5. “When playing music, it is possible to achieve a unique sense of peace.”

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Daniel Barenboim Quote: “The Steinway piano is such an incomparable instrument. Due to its virtues, I am able to express all my musical feelings.”

6. “The Steinway piano is such an incomparable instrument. Due to its virtues, I am able to express all my musical feelings.”

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Daniel Barenboim Quote: “European anti-Semitism goes much further back than to the partition of Palestine and the establishment of Israel in 1948. It even goes further back than the Holocaust.”

7. “European anti-Semitism goes much further back than to the partition of Palestine and the establishment of Israel in 1948. It even goes further back than the Holocaust.”

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Daniel Barenboim Quote: “To have real knowledge, one must understand the essence of things and not only their manifestations.”

8. “To have real knowledge, one must understand the essence of things and not only their manifestations.”

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Daniel Barenboim Quote: “Today, conducting is a question of ego: a lot of people believe they are actually playing the music.”

9. “Today, conducting is a question of ego: a lot of people believe they are actually playing the music.”

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Daniel Barenboim Quote: “I hope that my new status will be an example of Israeli-Palestinian co-existence, I believe that the destinies of the Israeli people and the Palestinian people are inextricably linked.”

10. “I hope that my new status will be an example of Israeli-Palestinian co-existence, I believe that the destinies of the Israeli people and the Palestinian people are inextricably linked.”

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Daniel Barenboim Quote: “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.”

11. “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.”

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Daniel Barenboim Quote: “Every great work of art has two faces, one towards its own time and one towards future, towards eternity.”

12. “Every great work of art has two faces, one towards its own time and one towards future, towards eternity.”

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Daniel Barenboim Quote: “I have the greatest respect for the survivors of the Holocaust. We can’t even imagine what these people went through.”

13. “I have the greatest respect for the survivors of the Holocaust. We can’t even imagine what these people went through.”

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Daniel Barenboim Quote: “If a man dreams about sleeping with Marilyn Monroe, he’s certainly entitled to that. But when he wakes up, he has to acknowledge that he is married to someone else.”

14. “If a man dreams about sleeping with Marilyn Monroe, he’s certainly entitled to that. But when he wakes up, he has to acknowledge that he is married to someone else.”

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Daniel Barenboim Quote: “Wagner exploited all forms of expression at a composer’s disposal – harmony, dynamics, orchestration – to the extreme. His music is highly emotional, and at the same time Wagner has extraordinary control over the effect he achieves.”

15. “Wagner exploited all forms of expression at a composer’s disposal – harmony, dynamics, orchestration – to the extreme. His music is highly emotional, and at the same time Wagner has extraordinary control over the effect he achieves.”

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Daniel Barenboim Quote: “I can’t stand being in Chicago anymore and hearing the Brahms Violin Concerto in the elevator. Because that shows me that when they come to the concert hall they listen to it in the same way.”

16. “I can’t stand being in Chicago anymore and hearing the Brahms Violin Concerto in the elevator. Because that shows me that when they come to the concert hall they listen to it in the same way.”

— Daniel Barenboim

Daniel Barenboim Quote: “There are probably many people in Israel who believe that Wagner, who died in 1883, lived in Berlin in 1942 and was friends with Hitler.”

17. “There are probably many people in Israel who believe that Wagner, who died in 1883, lived in Berlin in 1942 and was friends with Hitler.”

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Daniel Barenboim Quote: “I don’t believe that the entire world is constantly anti-Semitic.”

18. “I don’t believe that the entire world is constantly anti-Semitic.”

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Daniel Barenboim Quote: “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.”

19. “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.”

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Daniel Barenboim Quote: “Israel’s strategy cannot be to constantly confront the Palestinians with the history of the Holocaust, but instead to show them that Israel is a reality.”

20. “Israel’s strategy cannot be to constantly confront the Palestinians with the history of the Holocaust, but instead to show them that Israel is a reality.”

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Daniel Barenboim Quote: “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.”

21. “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.”

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Daniel Barenboim Quote: “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.”

22. “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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Daniel Barenboim Quote: “An Israeli who thinks that his government is doing everything right wouldn’t join the Divan Orchestra in the first place.”

23. “An Israeli who thinks that his government is doing everything right wouldn’t join the Divan Orchestra in the first place.”

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Daniel Barenboim Quote: “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.”

24. “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.”

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Daniel Barenboim Quote: “The ear plays the role of the guide in the museum in the concert I’m taking now. We don’t have an oral guide, we have to provide it ourselves. One reason why active listening is absolutely essential.”

25. “The ear plays the role of the guide in the museum in the concert I’m taking now. We don’t have an oral guide, we have to provide it ourselves. One reason why active listening is absolutely essential.”

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Daniel Barenboim Quote: “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.”

26. “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.”

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Daniel Barenboim Quote: “The Germans are prisoners of their past.”

27. “The Germans are prisoners of their past.”

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Daniel Barenboim Quote: “Not only has the eyes taken over, but we have anaesthetised the ears through all the muzak that we hear all the time.”

28. “Not only has the eyes taken over, but we have anaesthetised the ears through all the muzak that we hear all the time.”

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Daniel Barenboim Quote: “I’m sure that there are many Israelis who dream of waking up one day to find the Palestinians gone. And there are many Palestinians who dream of going to bed at night and waking up the next morning to find the Israelis gone.”

29. “I’m sure that there are many Israelis who dream of waking up one day to find the Palestinians gone. And there are many Palestinians who dream of going to bed at night and waking up the next morning to find the Israelis gone.”

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Daniel Barenboim Quote: “Now the first step has to be taken, the step towards democracy. This step is full of risks, and requires trust on all sides. We don’t know where it will lead. But if we just stand still, we will have no chance of escaping the violence.”

30. “Now the first step has to be taken, the step towards democracy. This step is full of risks, and requires trust on all sides. We don’t know where it will lead. But if we just stand still, we will have no chance of escaping the violence.”

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Daniel Barenboim Quote: “Germany will never be a real, free thinking and free feeling friend of Israel, because it will always fall under this shadow.”

31. “Germany will never be a real, free thinking and free feeling friend of Israel, because it will always fall under this shadow.”

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