You can't expect someone born into a family with no music...to understand when I'm conducting the Schรถnberg Variations.
Daniel BarenboimI can't stand being in Chicago anymore and hearing the Brahms Violin Concerto in the elevator. Because that shows me that when they come to the concert hall they listen to it in the same way.
Daniel BarenboimSound is often talked about in a very subjective way, as if it had a colour. This is a bright sound, this is a dark sound. I don't believe in that because I think that is much too subjective.
Daniel BarenboimNot only has the eyes taken over, but we have anaesthetised the ears through all the muzak that we hear all the time.
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