"An hour of violin lessons in Berlin is an hour where you get the child interested in music. An hour in a violin lesson in Palestine is an hour away from violence, is an hour away from fundamentalism."

--

Source : "Europe has to take the initiative now". Interview with Luke Harding, www.theguardian.com. November 30, 2004.

Daniel Barenboim

#Children Quotes #Lessons Quotes #Violin Quotes

“I find I like it too much.”
“Yeah, for some reason parrots have to bite me. That's their job. I don't know why that is. They've nearly torn my nose off. I've had some really bad parrot bites.”
“The more film I watch, the more John Ford looks like a giant. His politics aren't so good, and you have to learn to accept John Wayne as an actor, but he's a poet in black and white.”
“The day when a sportsman stops thinking above all else of the happiness in his own effort and the intoxication of the power and physical balance he derives from it, the day when he lets considerations of vanity or interest take over, on this day his ideal will die.”

Source : "The Real Problem in DC: Sportsmanship" by Michael Brick, www.esquire.com. October 11, 2013.
“E-mail is a modern Penny Post: the world is a single city with a single postal rate.”
“If risk is the key factor to success and really smart people avoid it, you might not be dumb enough to succeed!”
“With the magnificence of eternity before us, let time, with all its fluctuations, dwindle into its own littleness.”
“Charity wins awards and applause, but joining the poor gets you killed.Â People do not get crucified for charity.Â People are crucified for living out a love that disrupts the social order, that calls forth a new world.Â People are not crucified for helping poor people.Â People are crucified for joining them.”

Source : Shane Claiborne (2010). “The Irresistible Revolution: Living As an Ordinary Radical”, p.86, ReadHowYouWant.com

You may also like:

Itzhak Perlman
Violinist
Jacqueline du Pre
Cellist
Ludwig van Beethoven
Composer
Pierre Boulez
Composer
Placido Domingo
Conductor
Richard Wagner
Composer
Simon Rattle
Conductor
Zubin Mehta
Conductor
Pinchas Zukerman
Violinist