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" I am not only a Parsi, I am a Kashmiri too. "
Zubin Mehta
Am
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" 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. "
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" The amount of culture going on in a small country like Israel is amazing. "
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" Citizens of India, Pakistan, and Kashmir need to come together and make music. "
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" I just want to play for Hindus and Muslims that sit together. That's all I want to do. "
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" In Chicago, they die for their teams. "
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" Indian hotels are doing well globally because they understand hospitality. "
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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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" I've known Pinchas Zukerman since he was a teenager. "
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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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" 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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" It's hard to find an emblem of cultural, national pride that burns as bright as Israel's success in classical music. "
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" Most Arab Israelis speak Hebrew, but not the other way around. It's about time that changed. "
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" My family and relatives alone could fill Shanmukhananda Hall in Bombay. "
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" I respect the Indian government for the fact that there are no settlements in Kashmir. "
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" I think conductors do spend too little time with their orchestras. "
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" I knew at university that medicine was just not for me. I saved many lives by not being a doctor! "
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" 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. "
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" My temples are only in India. When I am in India, I go to the religious ceremonies. "
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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. "
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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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" I always look at the work of fashion designers as if they were art. "
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" I would convert to Judaism if the operation didn't hurt so much. "
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" I'm a Persian Jew, and we don't speak Hebrew. "
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" Wagner's philosophy had absolutely nothing to do with Bruckner. Bruckner hadn't written a single word against Jews. Wagner's book on the Jews was one of the most infamous books of the 19th century. "
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" I am always hearing from Israelis, 'Oh, CNN is anti-Israel,' or 'BBC is against us.' But no, they are reporting facts. "
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" The 'New York Times' reviews of my work have been evenly divided - favourable and unfavourable. "
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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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" Music is the message of peace, and music only brings peace. "
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