List of Georg Solti Quotes

From Toscanini I Learnt The Essential And Desperate Seriousness Of Making Music.

I Would Never Have Become Music Director Of The Chicago Symphony, Which Would Have Been An Extremely Sad Loss.

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.

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 Seem To Me More Valid Than Any Of The Others I Am A Naturally Friendly Person, And I Hate To Be Alone.

I Can Only Hope That Neither Of Them Was Scarred By Their Upbringing.

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.

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.

Between The Two Men, Somewhere, A Truth Is Lying, And That Is What I Try To Find.

The Experience Awakened 'my Tremendous Musical Ambition, Which Has Never Subsided To This Day.

I Wanted To Get Away From My Past And Everything Connected With It.

Everyone Says You Have To Be A Specialist, And If You Conduct Wagner You Cannot Conduct Mozart - This Is Nonsense.

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.