The Joy Of Working With The Chicago

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.

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

Although Both Sides Of My Family Were Religious, I Was Never Forced To Practice The Jewish Faith. I Did Not Really Rebel Against It, But Then, As Today, I Disliked Organized Religion. I Have A Strange Inhibition About Praying With Others.

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.

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