Daniel Barenboim Quotes

With most of the songs and music that I've composed, irrespective of the myriad videos made, I was always careful not to overly define the experience, leaving room for people to internalize things for themselves, making their experience more integral.

So much of listening to lyrically driven music is projecting your own feelings and experiences into the music.

People relate to songs so differently. No matter what it's about in reality, people create their own meaning behind it and connect with it on their own terms.

The most delightful aspect about the language of cinema is that it speaks to each of us in different ways - it is a purely subjective experience.

Music has as many roles as people make it.

After talking to people and meeting them every day, I realize that a song can be written from one perspective with an objective in mind. What is crazy about it is that many different people can take one song a totally different way. That is so cool, since music is a universal thing and a very personal thing.

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

A musician has to find a way to make his music mean something special - spiritually or however you can.

So long as the human spirit thrives on this planet, music in some living form will accompany and sustain it and give it expressive meaning.

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.

My songs are a direct route into my brain and my heart.

Music for me has always been something that is directly connected to my heart.

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

Different people get different things out of the images. It doesn't matter what it's about, all that matters is how it makes you feel.

Music is a very personal and emotional form of communication.

I love when people mirror themselves in my music, and I think that's the whole point of it - not telling people what it is or how they're supposed to feel... but you having a relationship with my song makes it real to me.

Music has influenced my life and is one of the most treasured things for me. It speaks a universal language and for me, it is extremely important to stay connected to it.

The great thing about a record is it frees your imagination; it gives your eyes a rest and lets your mind wander. There's the special thing that each record can mean a different thing to every person listening to it.

I can't say what people use the experience of listening to songs for, but I would never tell somebody what it is supposed to mean. That defeats the purpose of making it. Hopefully, whoever connects with it connects with it in their own way, and it can mean whatever it is supposed to mean to them.

Music is first for me. How the music makes me feel, it's like energy. It has to match my life. What's happening around me or to me. That's where it comes from.

People often reach out and comment on how they relate to my lyrics, which makes me feel very warm inside.

I don't want to sound like I'm trying to be too deep about it, but when we play shows, music takes everybody on their own journey - because one song might mean something to me, that means something completely different to someone else.

I definitely associate music with color. For example, my first record has a red cover but it is totally green and blue to me.

Everybody interprets things differently with their own perception, and I want poetry to pull out of them their own feelings.

Music is still above all else the thing that does it for me.