Daniel Barenboim Quotes

Music is not simply an orchestration of something, but it's also not something as trivial as honesty.

For me, music is all about emotion and attitude.

Music is the shorthand of emotion.

Music is the universal language of mankind.

When words leave off, music begins.

Music is something no one can control.

Music is about feeling.

The truth is that art does not teach; it makes you feel, and any teaching that may arise from the feeling is an extra, and must not be stressed too much. In the modern world, and in Canada as much as anywhere, we are obsessed with the notion that to think is the highest achievement of mankind, but we neglect the fact that thought untouched by feeling is thin, delusive, treacherous stuff.

Music is meant to be a beautiful thing.

When music fails to agree to the ear, to soothe the ear and the heart and the senses, then it has missed the point.

The first condition for making music is not to make a noise.

A song is the most intangible thing in the world.

Life and people are complex. A writer as an artist doesn't have the personality of a politician. We don't see the world that simply.

Music is the silence between the notes.

You wind up creating from silence, like painting a picture on a blank canvas that could bring tears to somebody's eyes. As songwriters, our blank canvas is silence. Then we write a song from an idea that can change somebody's life. Songwriting is the closest thing to magic that we could ever experience. That's why I love songwriting.

Music is the soul of language.

The singular point of beautiful objects, and people, is that they are experienced not as parts, or ratios between cheekbones and chin, but as wholes. The experience of beauty is a perception, but it is one that mixes up various other sensations and makes them converge in a particular way.

Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.

Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one's sensations.

Music is how you feel.

Words are the children of reason and, therefore, can't explain it. They really can't translate feeling because they're not part of it. That's why it bugs me when people try to analyze jazz as an intellectual theorem. It's not. It's feeling.

Music is passionate. It's love for me.

Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the memory.

Sometimes people only see horrible, terrible things in my paintings.

Music is harmony, harmony is perfection, perfection is our dream, and our dream is heaven.