Music is an art that touches the depth of human existence; an art of sounds that crosses all borders.
Daniel BarenboimRead
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.
Interpretation
What this quote means
Active listening is crucial for understanding and interpreting experiences.
In this quote, Daniel Barenboim emphasizes the importance of active listening in navigating and interpreting complex experiences, akin to how a guide helps visitors appreciate art in a museum. He suggests that without external guidance, like an oral guide in a museum, individuals must cultivate their own ability to listen attentively and derive meaning from their surroundings, particularly in the context of music and concerts.
Themes
ListeningMusicUnderstandingExperienceInterpretation
In practice
Example use cases
In a workshop about effective communication, this quote can be used to stress the importance of listening skills.
More from Daniel Barenboim
All quotes →You can't expect someone born into a family with no music... to understand when I'm conducting the Schoenberg Variations.
Daniel BarenboimRead
For me personally, Elliott Carter was and remains one of the most meaningful composers of the late 20th and early 21st centuries because he represents substance. He was the living proof of uncompromising, complex music, which at first seems inaccessible. But it becomes accessible if one digs in and sees the development through.
Daniel BarenboimRead
When we talk about music, we talk about our reaction to it. One person might say that music is so poetic, while another says it's all mathematics. Yet another might say it's about sensuality, and so on. That's all true. But music is not just one of these things. It's everything all at once.
Daniel BarenboimRead
Playing and listening to music gives you a sense of fulfilment because you have to put everything in you at its disposal.
Daniel BarenboimRead
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 BarenboimRead
Similar quotes
It's always the idle habits you acquire which you will regret. Father said that. That Christ was not crucified: he was worn away by a minute clicking of little wheels. That had no sister.
William FaulknerRead
To wish to be well is a part of becoming well.
Seneca The YoungerRead
What you would seem to be, be really.
Benjamin FranklinRead
I don't think you ever really know what all you're doing, so you have to act on faith.
Dolly PartonRead
As my father taught me, and he drove home that point, he said, 'Just remember something. You don't need to tell anybody how good you are. You show them how good you are.' And he drove that home with me. So I learned early not to brag about how good I was or what I could do but let my game take that away and show them that I could play well enough.
Arnold PalmerRead
I was looking in the mirror the other day and I realized I haven't changed much since I was in my twenties. The only difference is I look a whole lot older now.
George CarlinRead