Daniel Barenboim Quotes
I love conducting. What I'm tired of is music administration. I don't want that. I just want to make music.
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Getting up at four in the morning to tend the farm while the world is quiet - feeding animals, mucking stalls, gathering eggs, filling water troughs, checking fences, letting animals out into the field - is a high point to my day.
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I love conducting. What I'm tired of is music administration. I don't want that. I just want to make music.