The Experience Awakened 'my Tremendous Musical Ambition,

Everyone Says You Have To Be A Specialist, And If You Conduct Wagner You Cannot Conduct Mozart - This Is Nonsense.

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.

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

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