Georg Solti famous quotes

04-17-2025

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

#Country #Son #Lucky
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

#Country #Home #Destiny
Between the two men, somewhere, a truth is lying, and that is what I try to find.
-- Georg Solti

#Lying #Men #Two
Fight the tendency to become complacent and do one kind of music - that is the death of a musician.
-- Georg Solti

#Fighting #Musician #Kind
From Toscanini I learnt the essential and desperate seriousness of making music.
-- Georg Solti

#Essentials #Desperate #Seriousness
Everyone says you have to be a specialist, and if you conduct Wagner you cannot conduct Mozart - this is nonsense.
-- Georg Solti

#Nonsense #Wagner #Specialists
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

#Mother #Intelligent #Cost
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

#Hard Work #People #Discipline
I would never have become music director of the Chicago Symphony, which would have been an extremely sad loss.
-- Georg Solti

#Loss #Symphony #Directors
The experience awakened 'my tremendous musical ambition, which has never subsided to this day.
-- Georg Solti

#Ambition #Musical #This Day
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

#Religious #Practice #Rebel
I can only hope that neither of my daughters was scarred by their upbringing.
-- Georg Solti

#Daughter #Mother #My Daughter
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

#Hate #Two #Important
I wanted to get away from my past and everything connected with it.
-- Georg Solti

#Past #Get Away #Wanted

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