"You can't expect someone born into a family with no music... to understand when I'm conducting the Schoenberg Variations."

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Daniel Barenboim

#Variation Quotes #Conducting Quotes #Born Quotes

“I am me, therefore I am the best.”
“Americans have grown impatient with the relentless politicizing of every area of life.”
“I'm one of those people who is actually inspired by a deadline. I might not sleep for many days on end, it may not be good for my health, but it definitely helps.”
“Deep roots are not reached by the frost.”
“You must also realize that the stuff of excellence-truth, real scientific truth-can be elusive... It is too often covered by the heavy fog of fear and hidden by the darkness of your detractors.”
“Olive's private view is that life depends on what she thinks of as "big bursts" and "little bursts." Big bursts are things like marriage or children, intimacies that keep you afloat, but these big bursts hold dangerous, unseen currents. Which is why you need the little bursts as well: a friendly clerk at Bradlee's, let's say, or the waitress at Dunkin' Donuts who knows how you like your coffee. Tricky business, really.”
“Nothing that is can pause or stay.”
“I like to walk around my apartment naked. I like sitting around in the nude watching sports, actually.”

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