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" 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. "

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

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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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" Most Arab Israelis speak Hebrew, but not the other way around. It's about time that changed. "

" 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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" My temples are only in India. When I am in India, I go to the religious ceremonies. "

" One shouldn't know the future. "

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

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

" There was an opinion expressed in the newspapers that, after 20 years, maybe the Israel Philharmonic should consider asking me to leave. I thought they might have a point, so I asked my orchestra. They told me overwhelmingly that they wanted me to stay. "

" Let's try to count the number of Nobel prize-winners that have emerged from scientific centres of excellence like the Weizmann Institute and Haifa's technical university, the Technion. There has to be at least 25. "

" Some musical directors have more chutzpah. They pick up the phone and talk people into giving. I prefer to call and say 'thank you' after the money has been contributed. "

" I have been to Kashmir many times, especially with my family, in the '70s. "

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

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