Georg Solti Quotes

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• I can only hope that neither of my daughters was scarred by their upbringing.
• Although both sides of my family were religious, I was never forced to practice the Jewish faith. I did not really rebel against it, but…
• The experience awakened 'my tremendous musical ambition, which has never subsided to this day.
• I would never have become music director of the Chicago Symphony, which would have been an extremely sad loss.
• The academy gave me a grounding in discipline and hard work that has sustained me throughout my life, and the lessons I learned there I…
• After about six months, I told my mother that I wanted the lessons to stop, and she was intelligent enough not to force me to…
• Everyone says you have to be a specialist, and if you conduct Wagner you cannot conduct Mozart - this is nonsense.
• From Toscanini I learnt the essential and desperate seriousness of making music.
• Fight the tendency to become complacent and do one kind of music - that is the death of a musician.
• Between the two men, somewhere, a truth is lying, and that is what I try to find.
• But one day, when I was still young, I was parted from my family and left my native country. I hunted and searched for music,…
• I was born and trained to communicate music, just as the sons were born and trained to hunt, and I was lucky to have grown…
• Friends are very important to me, and I have always had many of them. There are probably many reasons why this is so, but two…
• I wanted to get away from my past and everything connected with it.
• My entire learning process is slow, because I have no visual memory.
• During the first six years of my life, Hungary was one of the most important components of the Habsburg dynasty's vast Austro-Hungarian Empire, but after…
• The stag tells him that he is the eldest of the sons - the father's favorite - and he warns the father that if he…

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