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The 'New York Times' reviews of my work have been evenly divided - favourable and unfavourable.
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There is a school in Israel called Hand in Hand which I support. There Arab and Jewish students study together on a daily basis.
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The New York Philharmonic is a tremendous opportunity, a great orchestra.
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I feel that the critic and music director should have such a good relationship they can pick up the phone and call each other any time.
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Just imagine, the thousands and thousands of concerts that take place every single day, all over the world. And the positive effect that they would have on the people listening. Now imagine a world without this. This void... it is unthinkable.
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My father was a trained accountant, a BCom from Sydenham College and a self-taught violinist. In the 1920s, when he was in his teens, he heard a great violinist, Jascha Heifetz, and he was so inspired listening to him that he bought himself a violin, and with a little help from an Italian teacher, he learned to play it.
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All these people who scream about Kashmir being an armed camp are in fact responsible for keeping it that way.
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Let's try to count the number of Nobel prize-winners that have emerged from scientific centres of excellence like the Weizmann Institute and Haifa's technical university, the Technion. There has to be at least 25.
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My tastes are Viennese.
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I've never said, 'I live for art.'
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Citizens of India, Pakistan, and Kashmir need to come together and make music.
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The private sector is growing so incredibly in India, in every city you have industries for whom building a concert hall would be nothing financially. But they just don't do it.
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Throughout Jack's violin solo at the Hollywood Bowl, the audience was glued to their seats. That was the only way he could get them to sit down.
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If you can sing together, you can live together.
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