Daniel Barenboim Quotes
Wagner is contrapuntal in a philosophical way as well as a musical way. What I mean by that is that every tendency has its opposite, and you see that in the man himself. He's a metaphysical hermaphrodite - he embraces hard and soft, masculine and feminine.
Quotes to Explore
-
I'm a very feminine person, but I have this hard shell, man, and I stay focused and don't take things personally.
-
Between two groups of people who want to make inconsistent kinds of worlds, I see no remedy but force.
-
I make a mean cup of coffee, if you give me the right ingredients.
-
Sometimes love is stronger than a man's convictions.
-
I'm a man of different types of flavors and tastes. I like listening to things that inspire me. Older music, when instruments were being played, not just people hitting buttons. It's manlier. You're touching things to make sounds appear.
-
To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.
-
No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.
-
You've heard me call myself a bluesman and a blues singer. I call myself a blues singer, but you ain't never heard me call myself a blues guitar man. Well, that's because there's been so many can do it better'n I can, play the blues better'n me. I think a lot of them have told me things, taught me things.
-
The American Dream is that any man or woman, despite of his or her background, can change their circumstances and rise as high as they are willing to work.
-
It is a true miracle when a man finally sees himself as his only opposition.
-
I can say with confidence there has never been a man or a woman - not me, not Bill, nobody - more qualified than Hillary Clinton to serve as president of the United States of America.
-
A woman's experience is different from a man's in virtually every respect, including how she is treated by the media.
-
The man who can keep a secret may be wise, but he is not half as wise as the man with no secrets to keep.
-
Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-
Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.
-
The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment.
-
It's such a relief to see Catholic and Protestant ministers getting on - that's so rare. And in 'I'd Do Anything,' I've had so much support from folks back home, no matter what side they're on.
-
No man should ever lose sleep over public affairs.
-
Quarrelling means trying to show that the other man is in the wrong. (And) There is no sense in trying to do that unless you and he had some sort of agreement as to what Righ and Wrong are.
-
What is this? It's music to get a brain seizure by.
-
I wouldn't recommend [boxing] to any child of mine. I would rather he played golf or something.
-
I always had a knack for putting the peanut butter on the bread. My brother Kevin knew how to spread the jelly around real good. When we found out Joe could cut off the crusts, well, that's when we knew we had something special.
-
And when one of them meets the other half, the actual half of himself, whether he be a lover of youth or a lover of another sort, the pair are lost in an amazement of love and friendship and intimacy and one will not be out of the other's sight, as I may say, even for a moment.
-
Wagner is contrapuntal in a philosophical way as well as a musical way. What I mean by that is that every tendency has its opposite, and you see that in the man himself. He's a metaphysical hermaphrodite - he embraces hard and soft, masculine and feminine.
