Daniel Barenboim Quotes

I love learning how people hear my music because everyone has different references.

I'm trying to interpret the film through the director's head, but it all comes out through me. So, a composer is kind of like a psychic medium.

I like the fact that music is more abstract.

I cannot say what I think is right about music. I only know the rightness of it.

Like when I hear a beat, it might make you feel a way, but then it might make me feel a completely different way.

My perception is that there is no distinction in music as many people perceive. The difference lies in the way you hear the music.

I don't believe in good music and bad music anymore. I'm through with that phase of my life. Sometimes I just wanna feel good, so I put on a good record. But mostly I'm more of a businessman than a music fan, so I'm listening to music in terms of, is this effective or not effective?

People get out of music what they want to get out of it, and all I try to do is do the same thing.

And I like to interpret music. So I think it's all interpretive.

The people need to feel the music.

I think it's always interesting how music means different things to different people, and people who overthink it are looking to in some ways show off with music, versus people who just respond to a song and decide to sing it.

The level on which Japan seems to have picked up on my music seems to be on a more abstract level.

Every one of us has a response of some kind to music, so I don't think it's fair to ever judge what is proper and what's not.

In music, you feel a connection to the voice and think about the person behind it. In art that's secondary.

I like any music I can feel.

I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.

You can say what you think music is, but the only way it really is, is how people experience it.

There's some people who are not understanding what Limp Bizkit is about. But, then again, who am I to tell people what they can use art for or how they can interpret it?

I do not literally paint that table, but the emotion it produces upon me.

Music is subjective to everyone's unique experience.

Music's something you feel. You have to feel it first before you hear it.

I think the whole question of meaning in music is difficult enough even if you hear me playing live right now in the same room! What I mean and what you take from it may be two quite different things anyway.

You don't have to know anything about art to appreciate it or to look at it. There aren't any hidden secrets or things that you're supposed to understand.

Every time we do anything artistic, the way it's perceived is always going to be different from the way that we had intended it to be because it's subjective.

I think it's really hard to describe music without alienating somebody.