Music has the capacity to create a greater reality.

- 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 …

- 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 f…

- 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

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

- 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

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 pe…

- Daniel Barenboim

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

- Daniel Barenboim

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

- Daniel Barenboim