Zubin Mehta Quotes
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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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Bruckner's Eighth is a colossus.
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I'm a Persian Jew, and we don't speak Hebrew.
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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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I knew at university that medicine was just not for me. I saved many lives by not being a doctor!
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I've known Pinchas Zukerman since he was a teenager.
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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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My life is so full of sacrifices.
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As long as they keep building settlements, the world will be anti-Israeli.
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The amount of culture going on in a small country like Israel is amazing.
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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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I always look at the work of fashion designers as if they were art.
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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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If you can sing together, you can live together.
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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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Critics do their job, and I take their criticism seriously.
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One shouldn't know the future.
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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.
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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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In Chicago, they die for their teams.
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One learns how to change gears within a concert repertoire.
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There are people who think I am Israeli. That's rubbish.
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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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In truth, I became a conductor because deep down I wanted to conduct Brahms's four symphonies and Richard Strauss's tone poems.