Daniel Barenboim Quotes

I don't like to attach myself to material things.

I don't believe there is any point in holding on to too many things in life.

I see what happens when one gets very attached to material things. That's just not what my life is.

The older I get, the less I obsess about material stuff. In fact, stuff has become the enemy. There always seems to be more of it than I have storage in my house!

As human beings we have a tendency when we like something to tie it up and make sure it's there for a long time. I've been working on being able to let things go. I don't think I ever want to buy property again.

I am totally unattached to material items.

The more you own, the more you know you don't own.

I've learned that you don't need a lot in life. If it can't fit into a suitcase, you don't really need it.

I'm not attached to things at all. I'm very lucky to have quite a few beautiful things, but if I look back at my life, I was often happiest when I had very little.

I'm no Buddhist monk, and I can't say I'm in love with renunciation in itself, or traveling an hour or more to print out an article I've written, or missing out on the N.B.A. Finals. But at some point, I decided that, for me at least, happiness arose out of all I didn't want or need, not all I did.

Oh God, are you supposed to collect things? I don't collect things. I like throwing things away.

Sometimes it's better to look at things than own them... owning means anxiety and lots of bags to carry around.

Those who are possessed by nothing possess everything.

I would much rather be asked, why I do not have one, than why I do have one.

I don't hoard things and I don't cling to memories.

Possessing by letting go of things was a secret of ownership unknown to youth.

I'm pretty brutal about getting rid of stuff. There wasn't anything where I was like, "Oh, I miss that," because usually it's for a good reason.

We truly possess only what we are able to renounce; otherwise, we are simply possessed by our possessions.

There is nothing I can't live without. I learned this attitude when I was a child.

For 10 years, I gave away my possessions every year and moved on to a new place.

Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men?

No man can lose what he never had.

Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.

Real freedom is having nothing. I was freer when I didn't have a cent.

He has missed the finest lesson of culture and experience who has not learned how to enjoy without owning.