Quote #4

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 quiet and not shouting.

More from Sir Georg Solti

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

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