The French Revolution gave us three... powerful ideas, or concepts - liberty, equality and fraternity. But these ideas... are not only right in themselves, but they are so because they come in the proper order. You cannot have equality without liberty, and you certainly cannot have fraternity without equality. The importance of this I learnt from music, because music evolves in time, and therefore the order inevitably determines the content.
Daniel BarenboimNot only has the eyes taken over, but we have anaesthetised the ears through all the muzak that we hear all the time.
Daniel BarenboimThe ear plays the role of the guide in the museum in the concert I'm taking now. We don't have an oral guide, we have to provide it ourselves. One reason why active listening is absolutely essential.
Daniel BarenboimAnd in English you have this wonderful difference between listening and hearing, and that you can hear without listening, and you can listen and not hear.
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