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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. "

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

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

" The 'New York Times' reviews of my work have been evenly divided - favourable and unfavourable. "

" I sometimes feel it is to my disadvantage that I have not conducted the Cleveland Orchestra or the Boston or Chicago symphonies, but then I have had to sacrifice something in order to have enough time with my orchestras. "

" I miss the standard of the New York Philharmonic's playing very much. It has certainly been a high point in my life. "

" Israel gives the West Bank water twice a week! One way of promoting good would be not to ration water. "

" Israel is a piece of real estate that neither Jew or Arab will let go of; neither will leave these shores. And so they will have to learn to live together. "

" In Chicago, they die for their teams. "

" 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. "

" One shouldn't know the future. "

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

" There is a school in Israel called Hand in Hand which I support. There Arab and Jewish students study together on a daily basis. "

" 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. "

" Why does Israel always have to suffer for others to feel bad for it? "

" We are so indebted to our ancestors, musically speaking, that they have left us 400 years of music. "

" In Bombay, we have a fine concert hall. I think it is high time we built venues in Delhi and Calcutta, not only for western music, but also Indian music. It doesn't matter which party is in power; don't you think the capital of India should have a concert hall? "

" My tastes are Viennese. "

" Indian hotels are doing well globally because they understand hospitality. "

" I am often critical of Israel's policies when in the country, but then feel defensive of them when overseas. "

" 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. "

" In truth, I became a conductor because deep down I wanted to conduct Brahms's four symphonies and Richard Strauss's tone poems. "

" I love the creativity of New York, but I don't enjoy the city - I don't like living here. "

" New York is really the place to be; to go to New York, you're going to the center of the world, the lion's den. "

" I am not only a Parsi, I am a Kashmiri too. "

" I'm very much tied to the state of Israel, but I am against their policy of settlements in Palestine. "

" Music is the message of peace, and music only brings peace. "

" One learns how to change gears within a concert repertoire. "

" I've never said, 'I live for art.' "

" 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. "