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“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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Georg Solti
Source : Georg Solti, Harvey Sachs (1997). “Memoirs”, Knopf
#Country Quotes
#Son Quotes
#Lucky Quotes
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“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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Georg Solti
Source : Georg Solti, Harvey Sachs (1997). “Solti on Solti: a memoir”, Vintage
#Country Quotes
#Home Quotes
#Destiny Quotes
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“Between the two men, somewhere, a truth is lying, and that is what I try to find.”
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Georg Solti
Source : "Conductors on Record". Book by John L. Holmes, pp. 256-261, 1988.
#Lying Quotes
#Men Quotes
#Two Quotes
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“Fight the tendency to become complacent and do one kind of music - that is the death of a musician.”
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Georg Solti
Source : "Conductors on Record". Book by John L. Holmes, pp. 256-261, 1988.
#Fighting Quotes
#Musician Quotes
#Kind Quotes
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“From Toscanini I learnt the essential and desperate seriousness of making music.”
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Georg Solti
Source : "Conductors on Record". Book by John L. Holmes, pp. 256-261, 1988.
#Essentials Quotes
#Desperate Quotes
#Seriousness Quotes
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“Everyone says you have to be a specialist, and if you conduct Wagner you cannot conduct Mozart - this is nonsense.”
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Georg Solti
Source : "Conductors on Record". Book by John L. Holmes, pp. 256-261, 1988.
#Nonsense Quotes
#Wagner Quotes
#Specialists Quotes
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“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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Georg Solti
Source : Georg Solti, Harvey Sachs (1997). “Memoirs”, Knopf
#Mother Quotes
#Intelligent Quotes
#Cost Quotes
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“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 now try to impress on young people.”
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Georg Solti
Source : Georg Solti, Harvey Sachs (1997). “Memoirs”, Knopf
#Hard Work Quotes
#People Quotes
#Discipline Quotes
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“I would never have become music director of the Chicago Symphony, which would have been an extremely sad loss.”
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Georg Solti
Source : Georg Solti, Harvey Sachs (1997). “Memoirs”, Knopf
#Loss Quotes
#Symphony Quotes
#Directors Quotes
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“The experience awakened 'my tremendous musical ambition, which has never subsided to this day.”
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Georg Solti
#Ambition Quotes
#Musical Quotes
#This Day Quotes
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“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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Georg Solti
Source : Georg Solti, Harvey Sachs (1997). “Solti on Solti: a memoir”, Vintage
#Religious Quotes
#Practice Quotes
#Rebel Quotes
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“I can only hope that neither of my daughters was scarred by their upbringing.”
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Georg Solti
Source : "Memoirs".
#Daughter Quotes
#Mother Quotes
#My Daughter Quotes
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“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.”
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Georg Solti
Source : Georg Solti, Harvey Sachs (1997). “Memoirs”, Knopf
#Hate Quotes
#Two Quotes
#Important Quotes
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“I wanted to get away from my past and everything connected with it.”
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Georg Solti
#Past Quotes
#Get Away Quotes
#Wanted Quotes
