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" I have had bullets flying at concerts, but I don't want to talk about that. "

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

" 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. "

" The New York Philharmonic is a tremendous opportunity, a great orchestra. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" I've known Pinchas Zukerman since he was a teenager. "

" My life is so full of sacrifices. "

" I endeavor that all orchestras I conduct sound Central European. "

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

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

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

" It's hard to find an emblem of cultural, national pride that burns as bright as Israel's success in classical music. "

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

" There are certainly talented instrumentalists coming from India. I see them performing all over the world. "

" I love rap because it talks about pain that comes authentically from the ghetto. It moves me. "

" I am jealous of all those people who live on the shore of Dal Lake. "

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

" There are three orchestras in Munich, all world-quality, in a city of one million. Yet every hall is full. "

" I always look at the work of fashion designers as if they were art. "

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

" 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? "

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

" 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. "

" You might say that Richard Wagner was the Queen Victoria of Europe. He had musical children everywhere! "

" I wish that only three residents of Tel Aviv could see what conditions on the West Bank are like. Living in such proximity, most Israelis have no idea about the adversity on the West Bank. "

" 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. "

" I'm hopeful that Israelis can go to Ramallah whenever they want and see how the people are living. "

" 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. "