Daniel Barenboim Quotes

A band is like a marriage - you don't know why it works, but when it does, everything feels right.

Sometimes one of us will have a riff or a bass line from home but it really gels when we come together. We really have a strong special chemistry that we take advantage of when we get together.

I think there's a natural chemistry between us as friends; and there's really no separation between the rapport that we feel when we're in conversation and when we're playing music, it's one in the same.

There's a beauty in being part of a band, when there's equality and trust.

I say if you can find somebody you can make music with, that's a special thing, so you should try to keep it going.

For me, the conductor is a person who interprets along with me, and we interpret things together.

Me and Sheamus have a natural chemistry.

I just want to work with people, so I always try to find a way to collaborate in the best way for the music.

We hung out a lot together. We went and saw films together. It was really actually quite easy. I think we were all very subconsciously connected in knowing that we needed to make it important, and therefore it just became important and it worked. Everybody had a lot of respect for each other. I think respect is the most important thing you can have.

Music - opera particularly - is a process which is endurable or successful only if it is achieved by people who love to collaborate.

I love to sing with different people.

If the chemistry between me and the artist is good, then that's half the battle.

The musicians are really on board, they're doing a great job together. There is some kind of a good chemistry, I would say affectionate chemistry and it's a huge promise of success.

My wife, Gayle, is a wonderful musician and singer. We share music, so it's a deep bond.

You have to have some connection, empathy, or chemistry with the person you're playing and playing with.

We have a certain bond that we don't have with anyone else on the planet. You just have that bond, that journey when you are in a band together.

No matter whom I've worked with, they've always created a great bond with me.

When you work with somebody, either the puzzle piece fits, or it doesn't.

I love seeing people collaborate to make great music!

Chickenfoot, my relationship with those guys is great.

You have a great result if the orchestra trusts the conductor, and the conductor trusts the orchestra.

Naturally, in a band or duo, it's really about compromise which isn't necessarily a bad thing.

As a group we must make sure we're all in sync with each other. We need to be connected through each other's actions.

As musicians, we have one of the greatest tools of bringing people together in music.

In marriage it is never having my own way. It is rather discovering our way.