Daniel Barenboim Quotes

My mom lives on a mountain in the Catskills.

I prefer the country life. I live in Kingston, but there is lots of trees.

I divide my time between all the mud and open space in Surrey and the social life and work in London, particularly Chelsea, which still has the same village feel that it had in the swinging Sixties.

I like visiting LA, but I wouldn't want to live there.

I miss Brighton enormously, enormously. There is so much I miss, including rain. I miss the verdant countryside.

I'm born and raised in New York. I've lived between New York and New Orleans for the last 16 to 17 years.

I'm from outside Philadelphia, a town called Wayne, which is, like, 25 minutes northwest.

London's where I grew up and had most of my experiences.

My grandfather loved the countryside.

When I lived in L.A. full time, I moved often - fourteen different neighbourhoods in sixteen years.

How long can men thrive between walls of brick, walking on asphalt pavements, breathing the fumes of coal and oil, growing, working, dying, with hardly a thought of wind, and sky, and fields of grain, seeing only machine-made beauty, the mineral-like quality of life?

I have memories of being on the farm with my grandfather.

I grew up in Marin County, which is a wealthy suburb of San Francisco.

In New York, you can't really like anything. You know? Pizza's all right. I mean, I've been having pizza since back in the day, so it's whatever.

The most restorative activity is to get out in nature where the air quality is a little nicer.

I do miss the Chocolate City of my youth.

Everyone should live where they want.

I love playing in the Garden. My dad used to tell me stories about playing here. So to see that crowd, it's crazy.

I have lived in South Delhi amidst greenery.

Living in a polluted city like New York, I try to go on hikes upstate as much as I can.

I go through phases of not liking the pretention and sycophantic nature of L.A. but I can be surfing in 10 minutes and snowboarding in two hours - I love the connection with nature.

My family lives on Long Island.

I like living in the city. I really don't like the suburbs.

I have nothing but love for my time I spent in Denver, and appreciation, and gratitude.

I'm not going to lie: I miss the grass and the trees... I miss home. On a Sunday morning, you could chill on the deck and listen to people mowing their lawns. It was very serene.