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" Go to the young conductors who are not making it, and you will hear how we shouldn't push ourselves or sell ourselves, how they don't have the right connections and the right opportunities. Well, you can be sure they've had the opportunities. "

Zubin Mehta

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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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