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Music is the message of peace, and music only brings peace.
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I believe in music.
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I endeavor that all orchestras I conduct sound Central European.
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New York for a long time was a kind of conductor's graveyard.
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I think conductors do spend too little time with their orchestras.
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New York is really the place to be; to go to New York, you're going to the center of the world, the lion's den.
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I love to conduct opera.
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I would convert to Judaism if the operation didn't hurt so much.
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My family and relatives alone could fill Shanmukhananda Hall in Bombay.
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Most Arab Israelis speak Hebrew, but not the other way around. It's about time that changed.
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I have been to Kashmir many times, especially with my family, in the '70s.
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Critics do their job, and I take their criticism seriously.
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One learns how to change gears within a concert repertoire.
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I love India.
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You might say that Richard Wagner was the Queen Victoria of Europe. He had musical children everywhere!
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I wish that only three residents of Tel Aviv could see what conditions on the West Bank are like. Living in such proximity, most Israelis have no idea about the adversity on the West Bank.
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Israel is a piece of real estate that neither Jew or Arab will let go of; neither will leave these shores. And so they will have to learn to live together.
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I sometimes feel it is to my disadvantage that I have not conducted the Cleveland Orchestra or the Boston or Chicago symphonies, but then I have had to sacrifice something in order to have enough time with my orchestras.
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I have a few homes, and Los Angeles is certainly one of them.
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I am not only a Parsi, I am a Kashmiri too.
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One shouldn't know the future.
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Go to the young conductors who are not making it, and you will hear how we shouldn't push ourselves or sell ourselves, how they don't have the right connections and the right opportunities. Well, you can be sure they've had the opportunities.
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I'm a pucca Indian. Bombay is my home.
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I'm a Persian Jew, and we don't speak Hebrew.