"I would never have become music director of……" — Georg Solti
"I would never have become music director of the Chicago Symphony, which would have been an extremely sad loss."
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17 Quotes by Georg Solti
Georg Solti has 17 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
- 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…
- The experience awakened 'my tremendous musical ambition, which has never subsided to this day.
- The academy gave me a grounding in discipline and hard work that has sustained me throughout my life, and the…
- After about six months, I told my mother that I wanted the lessons to stop, and she was intelligent enough…
- Everyone says you have to be a specialist, and if you conduct Wagner you cannot conduct Mozart - this is…
- 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…
- I was born and trained to communicate music, just as the sons were born and trained to hunt, and I…
- Friends are very important to me, and I have always had many of them. There are probably many reasons why…
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