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

" 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. "

" Even in music concerts in Mumbai and different parts of the world, seats are reserved for sponsors. "

" I think conductors do spend too little time with their orchestras. "

" 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. "

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

" I have a few homes, and Los Angeles is certainly one of them. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" As long as they keep building settlements, the world will be anti-Israeli. "

" I am always hearing from Israelis, 'Oh, CNN is anti-Israel,' or 'BBC is against us.' But no, they are reporting facts. "

" In Chicago, they die for their teams. "

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

" My tastes are Viennese. "

" 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. "

" After conducting Wagner, Beethoven's triple concerto is like taking an Alka Seltzer. "

" Rock music is predictable, unless there's great talent involved. "

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

" I love India. "

" An American orchestra doesn't want to play more than it has to. I respectfully disagree with that attitude. "

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

" One shouldn't know the future. "

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

" I believe in music. "