Quotes by Georg Solti - Page 1

The joy of working with the Chicago Symphony was immeasureable.
Georg Solti / Conductor
Chicago
Joy
Symphony
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I wanted to get away from my past and everything connected with it.
Georg Solti / Conductor
Connected
Get Away
Past
Wanted
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My entire learning process is slow, because I have no visual memory.
Georg Solti / Conductor
Learning Process
Memories
Process
Visuals
Visual
Entire
Memory
Slow
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I can only hope that neither of them was scarred by their upbringing.
Georg Solti / Conductor
Daughter
I Can
Mother
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I can only hope that neither of my daughters was scarred by their upbringing.
Georg Solti / Conductor
Upbringing
Daughters
Neither
Scarred
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From Toscanini I learnt the essential and desperate seriousness of making music.
Georg Solti / Conductor
Desperate
Essentials
Seriousness
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Between the two men, somewhere, a truth is lying, and that is what I try to find.
Georg Solti / Conductor
Men
Lying
Two
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The experience awakened 'my tremendous musical ambition, which has never subsided to this day.
Georg Solti / Conductor
Ambition
Awakened
Musical
Tremendous
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Fight the tendency to become complacent and do one kind of music - that is the death of a musician.
Georg Solti / Conductor
Fighting
Kind
Musician
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I would never have become music director of the Chicago Symphony, which would have been an extremely sad loss.
Georg Solti / Conductor
Sad
Chicago
Directors
Loss
Symphony
Extremely
Music Director
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Everyone says you have to be a specialist, and if you conduct Wagner you cannot conduct Mozart - this is nonsense.
Georg Solti / Conductor
Nonsense
Specialists
Wagner
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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.
Georg Solti / Conductor
Academy
Discipline
Grounding
Hard Work
Impress
Lessons
Life Lesson
Life Work Hard Work
Life Work Discipline
Gave
Sustained
Throughout
Young People
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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.
Georg Solti / Conductor
Believe
Numbers
World
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The stag tells him that he is the eldest of the sons - the father's favorite - and he warns the father that if he tries to shoot any of the stags, their antlers will tear him to pieces.
Georg Solti / Conductor
Eldest
Sons
Tear
Tries
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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.
Georg Solti / Conductor
War
Components
Dynasty
Entity
Hungary
Independent
Six
World War I
Years
Life War World
Became
Vast
Empire
National
The Most Important
World War
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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.
Georg Solti / Conductor
Cost
Household
Intelligent
Lessons
Months
Mother
Six Months
Abundant
Money Enough Me
Besides
Money Me Enough
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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.
Georg Solti / Conductor
Alone
Friendly
Hate
Important
Two
Alone I Am Me
Naturally
Reasons
Seem
Valid
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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.
Georg Solti / Conductor
Religion
Faith
Both Sides
Organized
Organized Religion
Practice
Rebel
Religious
Sides
Strange
Jewish
Although
Disliked
Forced
Inhibition
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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.
Georg Solti / Conductor
Belief
Born
Celebration
Communicate
Country
Hungary
Lucky
Passionate
Son
Life Power Music
Breathes
Grown
Sons
Trained
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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.
Georg Solti / Conductor
Home
Circumstances
Country
Destiny
Native
One Day
Life Family Home
Hunt
Object
Parted
Returning
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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.
Georg Solti / Conductor
Attitude
Teacher
Children
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