My Entire Learning Process Is

I Wanted To Get Away From My Past And Everything Connected With It.

From Toscanini I Learnt The Essential And Desperate Seriousness Of Making Music.

I Would Never Have Become Music Director Of The Chicago Symphony, Which Would Have Been An Extremely Sad Loss.

Fight The Tendency To Become Complacent And Do One Kind Of Music - That Is The Death Of A Musician.

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.