Daniel Barenboim Music Quotations

When playing music, it is possible to achieve a unique sense of peace.

For many people, music is here to let them forget the daily chores of life.

I would like to be a terrorist for music education - to make a complete reform, all over the world.

Beethoven's music tends to move from chaos to order, as if order were an imperative of human existence.

I maintain music is not here to make us forget about life. It's also here to teach us about life: the fact that everything starts and ends, the fact that every sound is in danger of disappearing, the fact that everything is connected - the fact that we live and we die.

I have music in my brain all the time, all sorts.

Beethoven's importance in music has been principally defined by the revolutionary nature of his compositions. He freed music from hitherto prevailing conventions of harmony and structure.