Daniel Barenboim

Music is not a profession. Music is a way of life - one that requires much professionalism.

No one can be an artist without a rich inner life.

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.

You can't expect someone born into a family with no music...to understand when I'm conducting the Schönberg Variations.