The joy of working with the Chicago Symphony was immeasureable.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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