During The First Six Years Of My

Fight The Tendency To Become Complacent And Do One Kind Of Music - That Is The Death Of A Musician.

I Have A Theory That There Is Something Abnormal About Children Who Like To Practice Instruments They Are Either Geniuses Or, More Often, Completely Untalented. I Certainly Did Not Like To Practice, And The Teacher Who Hit Me, And The View Of The Park, Did Not Help To Improve My Attitude.

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.

Everyone Says You Have To Be A Specialist, And If You Conduct Wagner You Cannot Conduct Mozart - This Is Nonsense.

From Toscanini I Learnt The Essential And Desperate Seriousness Of Making Music.