From Toscanini I Learnt The Essential And

Mozart Makes You Believe In God Because It Cannot Be By Chance That Such A Phenomenon Arrives Into This World And Leaves Such An Unbounded Number Of Unparalleled Masterpieces.

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

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.

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.

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.