OCR Text |
Show TW 3- fodteot ... . Famous Musician Tells Why He fights the Urge to Pat Himself on the Back w - .1 Joseph Szigeti, the world -renowned Hungarian-born concert vio? llnlst, reveals his personal creed. This is one of a series of statements state-ments prepared for broadcast by thinking, useful people In all walks of life. By Joseph Szigeti Concert Violinist I would not like to give the Impression that my career and character such as they are have been built consciously upon a closely-defined philosophy or set of maxims. Alas! this is not so. But when I was still a boy, I was much impressed by the exclamation of the Danish sculptor sculp-tor Thorwaldsen: "I'm slipping I'm beginning to find my stuff almost good!" I think that this warning signal has been operative opera-tive in me ever since. It has perhaps prompted me to set myself my-self ever more difficult assignments. assign-ments. It may have curbed me whenever I felt an undue urge to celebrate that it, to pat myself on the back. I must have realized early in life that we are all to a certain |