Daniel Barenboim

When we talk about music, we talk about our reaction to it. One person might say that music is so poetic, while another says it's all mathematics. Yet another might say it's about sensuality, and so on. That's all true. But music is not just one of these things. It's everything all at once. ”

Children in schools need to have something to do with music and learn it the way they do literature, geography and biology. ”

You can't expect someone born into a family with no music... to understand when I'm conducting the Schoenberg Variations. ”

I feel that the Jews have always had a special connection to this part of the world, which in geographical terms was called Palestine for so many centuries. ”

Beethoven's importance in music has been principally defined by the revolutionary nature of his compositions. He freed music from hitherto prevailing conventions of harmony and structure. ”

Every concert I've finished with the knowledge I've played a fistful of wrong notes. ”

To have real knowledge, one must understand the essence of things and not only their manifestations. ”

I believe education is much more important than we assume. ”

I would like to be a terrorist for music education - to make a complete reform, all over the world. ”

What the world is saying to us human beings is, 'Don't stick to the old ways, learn to think anew.' And that's what musicians do every day. ”