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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…
• 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…
• After about six months, I told my mother that I wanted the lessons to stop, and she was intelligent enough not 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…
• I was born and trained to communicate music, just as the sons were born and trained to hunt, and I was lucky…

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