I Wanted To Get Away

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.

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.

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.

But One Day, When I Was Still Young, I Was Parted From My Family And Left My Native Country. I Hunted And Searched For Music, And Destiny Turned Me Into The Object Of My Hunt. The Circumstances Of Life Became My 'antlers' And Prevented Me From Returning Home.