Daniel Barenboim Quotes

I'll be making music 'til the day I die. I've done all kinds of stuff, and more is coming.

A lot of drummers get sidetracked by the instrument. It can engulf you.

Music does not carry you along. You have to carry it along strictly by your ability to really just focus on that little small kernel of emotion or story.

Like most musicians, I'm good at becoming immersed in the music that I am currently working on. We seldom lift up our heads to contemplate even the music we will be doing in the future, let alone what we've done in the past.

If I were to explore music, I'd want to just focus on that and make that my priority.

I started bands at a pretty young age and played with my friends back in Detroit. I've always known that I wanted to do this. It was all I was ever interested in doing. I never had, outside of music, any extracurricular activities that I took part in.

Music for me, it demands full concentration.

Since day one my thing has always been to play the music.

I didn't take music seriously in the beginning. It just kind of a hobby to me. It was something that I love doing for fun.

Everything I did is because I wanted to do it. If I weren't playing this arena, if I were playing a club, I'd still be doing it because that's what I want to do. I love playing the guitar.

I don't regret any of the musical decisions I have made.

Don't play the saxophone. Let it play you.

I will concentrate on playing guitar, on lyrics and on singing. I am a part of things; I am not the encompassing 'Smog.'

I guess fortunate that I'm still around and I emphasize I guess because you never can tell what musicians would be playing had they been around as long as I have.

I tend to play in a way that feels natural to me. To me that's authentic for myself. I play by where I'm led by some sense of where I feel I'm supposed to be.

I really didn't have a plan, I just went in and started playing. one of my specialties was to be able to play for a really long time without stopping and I would play these repeated patterns for hours and hours and I wouldn't seem to get tired.

Once you start playing a piece, there is a connection between every note. You cannot say, 'I will not concentrate on this note.' You cannot ignore things the way you do in the rest of your life.

It's very important to go through periods where you sound just rotten and you know it, and you have to persevere or give up.

There is no formula to it. Writing every song is a little journey. The first note has to lift you.

I began playing drums when I was seven and guitar when I was fourteen, but it wasn't until the early '90s that I took music seriously.

I never gave up on country music because I knew what I was doing was not that bad.

Music is a 24-hour-a-day thing for me.

Making music, if you're a real musician, you carry on regardless in this world.

Playing music is a lifetime's work. And if you want to carry on with it, you have to try to better yourself. You have to see where the music can take you.

I'm pretty sure I'm gonna stick with country until I ride off in the sunset.