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" I am an Indian, so I do yoga. "
Zubin Mehta
Am
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" One learns how to change gears within a concert repertoire. "
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" Bruckner's Eighth is a colossus. "
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" You might say that Richard Wagner was the Queen Victoria of Europe. He had musical children everywhere! "
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" Open rehearsals reach people who might not otherwise hear the Philharmonic - people on fixed incomes, people who can't move easily at night, students. "
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" Music is the message of peace, and music only brings peace. "
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" Rock music is predictable, unless there's great talent involved. "
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" Critics do their job, and I take their criticism seriously. "
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" I've never said, 'I live for art.' "
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" My family and relatives alone could fill Shanmukhananda Hall in Bombay. "
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" 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. "
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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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" The 'New York Times' reviews of my work have been evenly divided - favourable and unfavourable. "
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" There are people who think I am Israeli. That's rubbish. "
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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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" I love India. "
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" We are so indebted to our ancestors, musically speaking, that they have left us 400 years of music. "
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" I've known Pinchas Zukerman since he was a teenager. "
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" 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. "
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