Zubin Mehta Quotes
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I love rap because it talks about pain that comes authentically from the ghetto. It moves me.
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Bruckner's Eighth is a colossus.
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Even in music concerts in Mumbai and different parts of the world, seats are reserved for sponsors.
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I'm a Persian Jew, and we don't speak Hebrew.
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I knew at university that medicine was just not for me. I saved many lives by not being a doctor!
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My life is so full of sacrifices.
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An American orchestra doesn't want to play more than it has to. I respectfully disagree with that attitude.
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I've known Pinchas Zukerman since he was a teenager.
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The amount of culture going on in a small country like Israel is amazing.
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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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I am always hearing from Israelis, 'Oh, CNN is anti-Israel,' or 'BBC is against us.' But no, they are reporting facts.
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As long as they keep building settlements, the world will be anti-Israeli.
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I always look at the work of fashion designers as if they were art.
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If you can sing together, you can live together.
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One learns how to change gears within a concert repertoire.
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I just want to play for Hindus and Muslims that sit together. That's all I want to do.
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In Chicago, they die for their teams.
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One shouldn't know the future.
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Critics do their job, and I take their criticism seriously.
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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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There are certainly talented instrumentalists coming from India. I see them performing all over the world.
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There are people who think I am Israeli. That's rubbish.
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Though there is such a rich tradition of culture and arts, I have never been invited to perform at a concert in South India.
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I miss the standard of the New York Philharmonic's playing very much. It has certainly been a high point in my life.