“When you get to be 103, modernism is a very wide concept.” — Daniel Barenboim Quote

“When you get to be 103, modernism is a very wide concept.”

“When we talk about music, we talk about our reaction to it. One person might say that music is so poetic, while another says it's all mathematics. Yet another might say it's about sensuality, and so on. That's all true. But music is not just one of these things. It's everything all at once.”

“I think that our civilisation is very much a visual civilisation - television and videos and all this.”

“I'm really a fighter against modernism equaling brutalism.”

“And yet what is Modernism? It is undefined.”

“Postmodernism was a reaction to modernism. Where modernism was about objectivity, postmodernism was about subjectivity. Where modernism sought a singular truth, postmodernism sought the multiplicity of truths.”