Daniel Barenboim Quotes

I liken movies to playing a piano: Sometimes you're playing the chords and different notes with unresolved cadences and playing all major chords that are all over the place, and you're enjoying yourself with a great, simple melody.

It's all about theme and development anyway. That's what music is about.

Most things that I write are in very specific forms. A score will have a shape and profile, and then the more emotional and intimate moments will come.

Music is something you can't really put in terms like in a sport, like running or football - that you win if you score more. In music, there's nothing like that.

The thing I try to do the most is to play in terms of the song and play in terms of what I'm hearing.

Beethoven's symphonies are not 'relaxing.' They are the most exciting things that have ever been created by a human being.

Music is intended and designed for sentient beings that have hopes and purposes and emotions.

Music is math; music is spiritual.

I like to create the music I hear in my interior. As a conductor, you have the ability to squeeze the sounds and interpretation you asked for from 50 to 80 people.

I had a really pleasant time composing music for 'Raaga.'

Music is something no one can control.

I try to, at least, think very melodically, and my band forces me to think very melodically.

Every orchestra has its own sound.

The feeling that you want the listener to get, you should get yourself when you first hit that chord, and that melody comes to mind.

Music is the only thing that I trust.

There is nothing more beautiful for a musician to listen and see harmony.

Emotion is a full range of a spectrum, like colours. It's not just anger. How are you going to get that out with just a guitar and screaming? You need to explore everything else.

The difference between noise and music is in what the musician does with the sounds.

Michael Berkeley's 'Sonata' is very - what can you say - melodious.

I started writing music as a composer in school, in the classical tradition.

You really have to play with the space in a riff so it can be allowed to breathe.

Music is to give, share.

Good music is made with the help of many musicians who express their joy in the swaras.

The time to sing is when your emotional level is just too high to speak anymore, and the time to dance is when your emotions are just too strong to only sing about how you feel.

Music has a lot in com­mon with math­e­mat­ics. But in music, two and two need not make four: they add up to what­ever you wish.