Zubin Mehta Quotes
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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'm a Persian Jew, and we don't speak Hebrew.
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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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An American orchestra doesn't want to play more than it has to. I respectfully disagree with that attitude.
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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 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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Critics do their job, and I take their criticism seriously.
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The amount of culture going on in a small country like Israel is amazing.
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As long as they keep building settlements, the world will be anti-Israeli.
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One shouldn't know the future.
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There are people who think I am Israeli. That's rubbish.
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I've known Pinchas Zukerman since he was a teenager.
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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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My life is so full of sacrifices.
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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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I am not only a Parsi, I am a Kashmiri too.
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In Chicago, they die for their teams.
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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 truth, I became a conductor because deep down I wanted to conduct Brahms's four symphonies and Richard Strauss's tone poems.
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If you can sing together, you can live together.
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Why does Israel always have to suffer for others to feel bad for it?
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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.