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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.
Georg Solti
Life
Music
Day
Home
Family
Me
Country
Young
Destiny
One Day
Circumstances
Hunt
Hunted
Object
Parted
Returning
Became
Still
Left
Native
Turned
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.
Georg Solti
Life
Work
Hard Work
Me
People
Discipline
Try
My Life
Impress
Young
Gave
Throughout
Academy
Learned
Sustained
Young People
Hard
Grounding
Lessons
Now
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.
Georg Solti
Today
Faith
Family
Religion
Strange
Practice
Others
Sides
Religious
About
Both
Both Sides
Never
Forced
Although
Were
Praying
Did
Against
Disliked
Then
Really
Organized
Organized Religion
Inhibition
Rebel
Jewish
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.
Georg Solti
Life
War
World
Hungary
My Life
First
Important
National
Independent
Components
Entity
Vast
Empire
Most
Became
Years
Six
The Most Important
After
Dynasty
World War
World War I
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.
Georg Solti
Alone
Me
Hate
Important
Others
Valid
Seem
More
Had
Always
Am
Friendly
Friends
Very
Than
Person
Any
Them
Naturally
Reasons
Many
Why
Two
I would never have become music director of the Chicago Symphony, which would have been an extremely sad loss.
Georg Solti
Sad
Music
Director
Become
Symphony
Music Director
Extremely
Would
Never
Been
Loss
Chicago
Which
After about six months, I told my mother that I wanted the lessons to stop, and she was intelligent enough not to force me to continue. Besides, the lessons cost money, which was anything but abundant in our household.
Georg Solti
Me
Money
Mother
Enough
Our
Months
Besides
About
Cost
Abundant
She
Force
Household
Continue
Intelligent
Six
Stop
Wanted
After
Anything
Which
Lessons
I believe that it is my job not only to write books but to have them published. A book is like a child. You have to defend the life of a child.
George Konrad
Life
You
Book
Job
Believe
Books
Only
Write
Like
Child
Them
Published
Defend
Unrestrained competition can drive people into actions that they would otherwise regret.
George Soros
People
Regret
Competition
Drive
Otherwise
Would
Actions
To my mind, there is a solution which has to do with democracy, because democratic governments are subject to the will of the people. So, if the people will it, you can actually create international institutions through the democratic states.
George Soros
Democracy
You
People
Mind
Will
States
Solution
Through
Institutions
Democratic
Because
Subject
Governments
Which
Create
International
International Institutions
Actually
Markets are designed to allow individuals to look after their private needs and to pursue profit. It's really a great invention and I wouldn't under-estimate the value of that, but they're not designed to take care of social needs.
George Soros
Great
Needs
Care
Value
Invention
Profit
Markets
Pursue
Take
Allow
Take Care
Individuals
Look
Private
After
Social
Really
Designed
I'm not doing my philanthropic work, out of any kind of guilt, or any need to create good public relations. I'm doing it because I can afford to do it, and I believe in it.
George Soros
Work
Good
Guilt
Believe
Relations
Out
Kind
Because
Doing
Afford
Any
Public
Work Out
Create
Public Relations
Need
Philanthropic
Market fundamentalists recognize that the role of the state in the economy is always disruptive, inefficient, and generally has negative connotations. This leads them to believe that the market mechanism can take care of all the problems.
George Soros
Problems
Care
Negative
Believe
State
Market
Recognize
Take
Generally
Take Care
Leads
Economy
Inefficient
Always
Role
Them
Mechanism
Connotations
Fundamentalists
Disruptive
In music one must think with the heart and feel with the brain.
George Szell
Music
Heart
Think
Must
Feel
Brain
I lived under the Nazis and under the Communists.
Gyorgy Ligeti
Communists
Lived
First of all I listen to music. I like music.
Gyorgy Ligeti
Music
First
Like
First Of All
Listen
I was fifteen years old, and I hardly knew how to play a simple Bach prelude on the piano when I began to compose music, and at the most advanced level. I had never studied such things as harmony.
Gyorgy Ligeti
Music
Simple
Old
Bach
Harmony
Compose
Piano
Never
Had
Studied
Advanced
Knew
Most
How
Years
Began
Fifteen
Prelude
Such Things
Play
Hardly
Level
Things
For the past ten years I have had no financial problems.
Gyorgy Ligeti
Financial
Problems
Past
Ten
Ten Years
Had
Years
Stravinsky used Mother Goose. He was influenced by Mother Goose, indirectly, but very beautifully.
Gyorgy Ligeti
Mother
Indirectly
He
Goose
Beautifully
Very
Influenced
Used
Stravinsky
Yes, fractals are what I want to find in my music.
Gyorgy Ligeti
Music
Find
Yes
Want
In my piano concerto I developed this polyphony to much higher complexity.
Gyorgy Ligeti
Complexity
Higher
Piano
Developed
Concerto
Much
Gesualdo was very important to me, I wanted to do something which corresponded to him.
Gyorgy Ligeti
Me
Important
Corresponded
Something
Him
Very
Wanted
Which
I don't use old music.
Gyorgy Ligeti
Music
Old
Old Music
Use
I like to stay home and listen to recordings.
Gyorgy Ligeti
Home
Stay
Recordings
Like
Listen
Steinberg is great. I should like to meet him.
Gyorgy Ligeti
Great
Meet
Like
Him
Should
There is a wonderful Hungarian literature, especially in lyric poetry.
Gyorgy Ligeti
Wonderful
Lyric
Hungarian
Poetry
Literature
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