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" Critics do their job, and I take their criticism seriously. "

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" I am jealous of all those people who live on the shore of Dal Lake. "

" I am always hearing from Israelis, 'Oh, CNN is anti-Israel,' or 'BBC is against us.' But no, they are reporting facts. "

" The amount of culture going on in a small country like Israel is amazing. "

" I'm hopeful that Israelis can go to Ramallah whenever they want and see how the people are living. "

" An American orchestra doesn't want to play more than it has to. I respectfully disagree with that attitude. "

" There are three orchestras in Munich, all world-quality, in a city of one million. Yet every hall is full. "

" I feel growing up in Mumbai is an advantage, as we grow up speaking so many languages that when we go abroad, it becomes easier to learn new languages. "

" There are people who think I am Israeli. That's rubbish. "

" I always look at the work of fashion designers as if they were art. "

" If North American musicians would only know how uncomfortable life is for European musicians. "

" If you can sing together, you can live together. "

" It seems always to have been difficult to have been a New York Philharmonic conductor because of the nature of New York. We are in direct competition with the great orchestras in the world who come to play in our hall or in Carnegie, and we are constantly compared. I think that 's a good thing. "

" I love to conduct opera. "

" I love rap because it talks about pain that comes authentically from the ghetto. It moves me. "

" I respect the Indian government for the fact that there are no settlements in Kashmir. "

" I'm a pucca Indian. Bombay is my home. "

" All these people who scream about Kashmir being an armed camp are in fact responsible for keeping it that way. "

" My parents had chosen the medical profession for me. I even studied a few semesters at St Xavier's College, but at the back of my mind, I always wanted to be a musician like my father. "

" There are certainly talented instrumentalists coming from India. I see them performing all over the world. "

" You might say that Richard Wagner was the Queen Victoria of Europe. He had musical children everywhere! "

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" As soon as, say, Saddam Hussein started bombing Israel with Scuds, everyone was like, 'Poor Israel.' But when Israel retaliates - and most of the time they then win - people turn against them. "

" One shouldn't know the future. "

" I think conductors do spend too little time with their orchestras. "

" New York for a long time was a kind of conductor's graveyard. "

" Even in music concerts in Mumbai and different parts of the world, seats are reserved for sponsors. "

" I endeavor that all orchestras I conduct sound Central European. "

" I'm a Persian Jew, and we don't speak Hebrew. "