"Music has the capacity to create a greater reality."

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Source : "Daniel Barenboim: 'Spaces of dialogue'". "The Frost Interview", www.aljazeera.com. August 04, 2013.

Daniel Barenboim

#Reality Quotes #Capacity Quotes

“Guilt, the poor man's mind control.”
“It's hard to beat somebody when they don't give up.”
“Money is only a human invention. I get paid for my work, it's a system of trade, but it's not my purpose and reason for living.”
“You can't tell how good a man or a watermelon is 'til they get thumped.”
“If I was a singer who won those Grammys, I'd be gracing all the magazine covers... I barely got asked to do an interview.”
“I did not want to be anything, and naturally I did not want to turn myself into a mere profession: all I ever wanted was to be myself.”
“The deep-read is when you get gut-hooked and dragged overboard down and down through the maze of print and find, to your amazement, you can breathe down there after all and thereâ€™s a whole other world. Iâ€™m talking about the kind of reading when you realize that books are indeed interactive. . . . Iâ€™m talking about the kind of deep-read where it isnâ€™t just the plot or the characters that matter, but the words and the way they fit together and the meandering evanescent thoughts you think between the lines: the kind of reading where you are fleetingly aware of your own mind at work.”
“It is a good plan to have a book with you in all places and at all times. If you are presently without, hurry without delay to the nearest shop and buy one of mine.”

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