Quote #2

Everyone says you have to be a specialist, and if you conduct Wagner you cannot conduct Mozart - this is nonsense.

More from Sir Georg Solti

  1. From Toscanini I learnt the essential and desperate seriousness of making music.
  2. Fight the tendency to become complacent and do one kind of music - that is the death of a musician.
  3. In my orchestra, I hate slackness, idle talk and lost time. I always hated this and still hate it. But I can achieve much more when I am qu…
  4. Between the two men, somewhere, a truth is lying, and that is what I try to find.

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