I Wanted To Get Away From My

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

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.

Friends Are Very Important To Me, And I Have Always Had Many Of Them. There Are Probably Many Reasons Why This Is So, But Two Seem To Me More Valid Than Any Of The Others I Am A Naturally Friendly Person, And I Hate To Be Alone.

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

The Experience Awakened 'my Tremendous Musical Ambition, Which Has Never Subsided To This Day.