Quote #1
From Toscanini I learnt the essential and desperate seriousness of making music.
More from Sir Georg Solti
- Everyone says you have to be a specialist, and if you conduct Wagner you cannot conduct Mozart - this is nonsense.
- Fight the tendency to become complacent and do one kind of music - that is the death of a musician.
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- Between the two men, somewhere, a truth is lying, and that is what I try to find.