Daniel Barenboim Quotes
It is always interesting and sometimes even important to have intimate knowledge of a composer's life, but it is not essential in order to understand the composer's works.
Quotes to Explore
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You can't control where your heart goes.
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I want my son to become aware that he is in charge of the choices he makes, and it's good to make thoughtful, good choices.
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I like being an outsider. It is better in France on the outside.
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Coming out of college with a degree in fine arts and painting isn't worth much any more.
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I am not in the business of suppressing books.
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I'm the little dog who goes the wrong way - under the hoop.
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I think that Indy is special to me. The greater the distance between the last time I drove an Indy car and the next time, I wouldn't like that to be too big.
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I never told a victim story about my imprisonment. Instead, I told a transformation story - about how prison changed my outlook, about how I saw that communication, truth, and trust are at the heart of power.
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The really wonderful thing that happened to me when I was in space was this feeling of belonging to the entire universe.
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With Spotify, people don't get it until they try it. Then they tell their friends.
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Most artists I run into aren't that thrilled with what they do anyway. They are glad to have different versions out there to see which one the audience likes the best.
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I generally have a brand of brief on every day.
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When I first started out in music, I was so negative. I was knee-deep in the streets. Then my friends started going to jail. They said, 'Boy, you better start taking this seriously; you got a chance to do something with your life.' That's when I realised I had to focus. The music led to the acting.
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
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I am the middle child with an older and younger brother.
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Starting in the third grade, my dad had me read the 'Denver Post.' I had to discuss two articles with him before dinner, and we would also watch '60 Minutes' together.
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If I don't eat something after I work out, I get shaky and cranky - not a good combination when you're a television host.
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Logic! Good gracious! What rubbish!
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Remember that it is not enough to abstain from lying by word of mouth; for the worst lies are often conveyed by a false look, smile, or act.
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I have the luck to choose what to do in my life.
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Life flies by, and it's easy to get lost in the blur. In adolescence, it's 'How do I fit in?' In your 20s, it's 'What do I want to do?' In your 30s, 'Is this what I'm meant to do?' I think the trick is living the questions. Not worrying so much about what's ahead but rather sitting in the grey area - being OK with where you are.
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They are, as it were, train-bearers in the pageant of life, and hold a glass up to humanity, frailer than itself. We see ourselves at second-hand in them: they show us all that we are, all that we wish to be, and all that we dread to be. What brings the resemblance nearer is, that, as they imitate us, we, in our turn, imitate them. There is no class of society whom so many persons regard with affection as actors.
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Until politics are a branch of science we shall do well to regard political and social reforms as experiments rather than short-cuts to the millennium.
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It is always interesting and sometimes even important to have intimate knowledge of a composer's life, but it is not essential in order to understand the composer's works.
