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

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" 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. "

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

" Music is the message of peace, and music only brings peace. "

" 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. "

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

" I'm a pucca Indian. Bombay is my home. "

" As soon as, say, Saddam Hussein started bombing Israel with Scuds, everyone was like, 'Poor Israel.' But when Israel retaliates - and most of the time they then win - people turn against them. "

" Though there is such a rich tradition of culture and arts, I have never been invited to perform at a concert in South India. "

" I sometimes feel it is to my disadvantage that I have not conducted the Cleveland Orchestra or the Boston or Chicago symphonies, but then I have had to sacrifice something in order to have enough time with my orchestras. "

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

" I just want to play for Hindus and Muslims that sit together. That's all I want to do. "

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

" My tastes are Viennese. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" I love to conduct opera. "

" 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. "

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

" Critics do their job, and I take their criticism seriously. "

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

" 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. "

" In Chicago, they die for their teams. "

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

" My life is so full of sacrifices. "

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

" 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. "

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