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By AnonymGeorg Solti
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 continue. Besides, the lessons cost money, which was anything but abundant in our household.
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By AnonymGeorg Solti
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 then, as today, I disliked organized religion. I have a strange inhibition about praying with others.
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By AnonymGeorg Solti
Between the two men, somewhere, a truth is lying, and that is what I try to find.
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By AnonymGeorg Solti
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, and destiny turned me into the object of my hunt. The circumstances of life became my 'antlers' and prevented me from returning home.
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By AnonymGeorg Solti
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 World War I it became an independent national entity.
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By AnonymGeorg Solti
Everyone says you have to be a specialist, and if you conduct Wagner you cannot conduct Mozart - this is nonsense.
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By AnonymGeorg Solti
Fight the tendency to become complacent and do one kind of music - that is the death of a musician.
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By AnonymGeorg Solti
From Toscanini I learnt the essential and desperate seriousness of making music.
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By AnonymGeorg Solti
I can only hope that neither of them was scarred by their upbringing.
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By AnonymGeorg Solti
I have a theory that there is something abnormal about children who like to practice instruments They are either geniuses or, more often, completely untalented. I certainly did not like to practice, and the teacher who hit me, and the view of the park, did not help to improve my attitude.
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By AnonymGeorg Solti
I wanted to get away from my past and everything connected with it.
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By AnonymGeorg Solti
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 up in Hungary, a country that lives and breathes music-that has a passionate belief in the power of music as a celebration of life.
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By AnonymGeorg Solti
I would never have become music director of the Chicago Symphony, which would have been an extremely sad loss.
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By AnonymGeorg Solti
Mozart makes you believe in God because it cannot be by chance that such a phenomenon arrives into this world and leaves such an unbounded number of unparalleled masterpieces.
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By AnonymGeorg Solti
My entire learning process is slow, because I have no visual memory.
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By AnonymGeorg Solti
The joy of working with the Chicago Symphony was immeasureable.
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By AnonymGeorg Solti
The experience awakened 'my tremendous musical ambition, which has never subsided to this day.
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