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I cannot be music director at La Scala and at Staatsoper. This would be unfair to one of the two institutions.

~Daniel Barenboim

Topics: Cannot Director Institutions La Music Two Unfair Would

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I used to conduct the last opera in Berlin on Sunday, get on a plane on Monday to Chicago, and start a rehearsal that same night, if it was a performance week.

~Daniel Barenboim

Topics: Berlin Chicago Conduct Get Last Monday Night Opera Performance Plane Rehearsal Same Start Sunday Used Week

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To play four hands requires two people who have great affinity for each other.

~Daniel Barenboim

Topics: Affinity Each Four Great Hands Other People Play Requires Two Two People Who

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When I played my first concert with an orchestra, I was eight years old in Berlin.

~Daniel Barenboim

Topics: Berlin Concert Eight First Old Orchestra Played Years

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I have accumulated so many experiences, so much, that I want to be able to realize so many things. This is why I have basically given up most of my positions.

~Daniel Barenboim

Topics: Able Accumulate Basically Experiences Given Many Most Much Positions Realize Things Up Want Why

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I am the conductor for life of the Staatskapelle in Berlin, which fills me with tremendous joy because I feel absolutely at one with them. When we play, I have a feeling that together we manage to create one collective lung for the whole orchestra so that everybody in the stage breathes the music in the same way.

~Daniel Barenboim

Topics: Absolutely Am Because Berlin Breathes Collective Conductor Create Everybody Feel Feeling Fills Joy Life Lung Manage Me Music Orchestra Play Same Stage Them Together Tremendous Way Which Whole I Am I Feel

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Most of the time I spend looking for the 25th hour in the day, the ninth day in the week, the 32nd day in the month and the 367th, eighth or 70th day in the year because I feel I have a very rich life.

~Daniel Barenboim

Topics: Because Day Eighth Feel Hour Life Looking Month Most Ninth Rich Spend Time Very Week Year I Feel

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I don't believe in changing the unchangeable.

~Daniel Barenboim

Topics: Believe Changing Unchangeable

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I don't like possessions.

~Daniel Barenboim

Topics: Like Possessions

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I was never really interested in an operatic post, but I took on the Bastille because it seemed a unique opportunity to build an opera ensemble from scratch, and to deal with all the disciplines that go into opera - the music, the staging and the singing - in an interrelated way.

~Daniel Barenboim

Topics: Because Build Deal Disciplines Ensemble Go Interested Music Never Opera Opportunity Post Really Scratch Seemed Singing Took Unique Way

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Biography

Nationality: Argentinian

Type: Musician

Born: November 15th, 1942

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