Georg Solti Quotes
"I wanted to get away from my past and everything connected with it."
- Georg Solti
(Related: Past)
"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
(Related: Father, Favorite, Sons, Will)
"The experience awakened 'my tremendous musical ambition, which has never subsided to this day."
- Georg Solti
(Related: Experience, Ambition, Day)
"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
(Related: Work, Life, People, Discipline, Hard work, Now)
"I would never have become music director of the Chicago Symphony, which would have been an extremely sad loss."
- Georg Solti
(Related: Music, Chicago, 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."
- Georg Solti
(Related: Money, Mother, Force, Months)
"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
(Related: Friends, Hate)
"I can only hope that neither of my daughters was scarred by their upbringing."
- Georg Solti
(Related: Hope, Daughters)
"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
(Related: War, Life, First, World, World war, Years)
"My entire learning process is slow, because I have no visual memory."
- Georg Solti
(Related: Learning, Memory)
"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
(Related: Family, Home, Life, Music, Circumstances, Country, Day, Destiny)
"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
(Related: Family, Faith, Religion, Practice, Religious, Today)