Daniel Barenboim Quotes
born 1942 Argentina
Also known as: Barenboim
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I think it’s obvious that Wagner’s anti-Semitic views and writings are monstrous. There is no way around that.
Music has the capacity to create a greater reality.
To have real knowledge, one must understand the essence of things and not only their manifestations.
Israelis must finally understand that their own security is inextricably linked to justice for the Palestinian people, which is so urgently needed. There can only be true and lasting peace if the unjust occupation of the Palestinian territories finally ends.
Music is the art of the imaginary par excellence, an art free of all limits imposed by words, an art that touches the depth of human existence, and art of sounds that crosses all borders.
Israel's lasting future depends on its government's willingness to enter into a genuine peace agreement with the Palestinians.
I am a Palestinian ..… and an Israeli … So you see it is possible to be both.
The founding fathers of the State of Israel considered the principle of equality and the pursuit of peace as the bedrock of the society they were building.
His exceptional musical talent was already evident then and he has since developed into one of the the preeminent conductors of our time
Both sides have to understand that they must live together for better or worse and that hatred, terror and territorial, ethnic and religious exclusion have never produced peace, but rather have led to killing and more killing.
Wagner, the person, is absolutely appalling, despicable, and, in a way, very difficult to put together with the music he wrote, which so often has exactly the opposite kind of feelings. It is noble, generous, etc.
I have lived as a Jew in Berlin for the past 23 years, something that would not have been possible if I did not believe that the Germans had thought long and hard about their past. No one else has managed to do this to the extent the Germans have, and I admire them for it.
When the technical problems of finger dexterity have been solved, it is too late to add musicality, phrasing and musical expression. That is why I never practise mechanically. If we work mechanically, we run the risk of changing the very nature of music.
The thing about Wagner is we’re always wrong about him, because he always embraces opposites … There are things in his operas which viewed one way are naturalistic, and viewed another way are symbolic, but the problem is you can’t represent both views on stage at once.