My entire learning process is slow, because I have no visual memory.

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.

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

The joy of working with the Chicago Symphony was immeasureable.

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

The academy gave me a grounding in discipline and hard work that has sustained me throughout my life, and the lessons I learned there I now try to impress on young people.

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