I Can Only Hope That Neither Of

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.

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.

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

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.

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.