Daniel Barenboim Quotes
Music is an art that touches the depth of human existence; an art of sounds that crosses all borders.
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I wake up late, say 10 or 11, because we've usually been out and about town until 2 or 3 A.M. listening to music at the jazz clubs or hitting the jazz clubs post-theater.
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I think it's a natural human tendency, when you read something, you tend to read a lot of your prejudices into it. And neuroscience is like a lot of disciplines - it has fashions; things change.
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I feel like Adele is a diva. Not in the bad way. She is one of the greatest voices of this industry and of her own art. What she offers is so unique that she's risen to such a status that very few artists can enjoy.
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I was a fine arts major in college, and a painter for many years. And I found that, like writing, art is very similar.
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I actually spend very little time listening to any new music.
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I'm the artist when I'm doing music that I am when I'm acting. I'm everything.
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Art never harms itself by keeping aloof from the social problems of the day: rather, by so doing, it more completely realises for us that which we desire.
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If you meet me, you might not get to know me. If you hear my music? You'll get to know me.
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The art of boxing is seeing spaces and being able to take shots. The hitting and being hit have to become one. Your reactions have to be so in the moment. There's no time to think.
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It's my job to make sure that the people I'm gonna team up with for my music see everything that I'm about: Put all my cards on the table and don't make them guess.
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Music is the best means we have of digesting time.
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I've dreamed of being on the road, traveling and touring, for as long as I've been into doing music. It's what I live for. I just wanna be Willie Nelson.
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At no point do I wish to be in conflict with any man or masculine thought. It doesn't enter my consciousness. Art is anonymous. It's not competitive with men. It's a complementary contribution.
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The more one forgets himself - by giving himself to a cause to serve or another person to love - the more human he is.
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Listening to soft music and the sound of the ocean is quite relaxing to me.
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Your boss is only human and just wants the best from you.
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I don't work with Sia every day; it depends what we do, whether we do performances or music videos, so the schedule is weird, but when we're off, we always try to see each other in between. We just hang out; we went to brunch one time, but for the most part I go to her house, and we eat and watch TV.
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It's what actors call a big, juicy part, when you're a leading man. I don't get a lot of those. I get a lot of supporting things.
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Graffiti is one of the few tools you have if you have almost nothing. And even if you don't come up with a picture to cure world poverty you can make someone smile while they're having a piss.
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We live with a distinct double standard about male and female aggression. Women's aggression isn't considered real. It isn't dangerous; it's only cute. Or it's always self-defense or otherwise inspired by a man. In the rare case where a woman is seen as genuinely responsible, she is branded a monster - an 'unnatural' woman.
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Education is the largest and most important investment Utah makes.
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Because all of biology is connected, one can often make a breakthrough with an organism that exaggerates a particular phenomenon, and later explore the generality.
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Music is an art that touches the depth of human existence; an art of sounds that crosses all borders.
