I 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 BarenboimJewish intellectuals contributed a great deal to insure that Europe became a continent of humanism, and it is with these humanist ideals that Europe must now intervene in the Middle East conflict.
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.
Daniel Barenboim