26 Quotes by Georg Solti

Although both sides of my family were religious, I was never forced to practice the Jewish faith. I did not really rebel against it, but then, as today, I disliked organized religion. I have a strange inhibition about praying with others.

I can only hope that neither of my daughters was scarred by their upbringing.

I wanted to get away from my past and everything connected with it.

The experience awakened 'my tremendous musical ambition, which has never subsided to this day.

The fear of financial disaster still remains deep inside me, however ridiculous this may seem, and I dislike extravagance and waste.

From Toscanini I learnt the essential and desperate seriousness of making music.

Fight the tendency to become complacent and do one kind of music - that is the death of a musician.

Between the two men, somewhere, a truth is lying, and that is what I try to find.

The joy of working with the Chicago Symphony was immeasureable.