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" I love the creativity of New York, but I don't enjoy the city - I don't like living here. "
Zubin Mehta
New York
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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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" I am often critical of Israel's policies when in the country, but then feel defensive of them when overseas. "
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" You might say that Richard Wagner was the Queen Victoria of Europe. He had musical children everywhere! "
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" I'm a pucca Indian. Bombay is my home. "
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" If North American musicians would only know how uncomfortable life is for European musicians. "
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" 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. "
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" I'm really not a party person. I'm in the business of working with 100 people every day, so I don't revel in meeting a roomful of people in my leisure time. "
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" Just imagine, the thousands and thousands of concerts that take place every single day, all over the world. And the positive effect that they would have on the people listening. Now imagine a world without this. This void... it is unthinkable. "
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" 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? "
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" There are people who think I am Israeli. That's rubbish. "
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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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" 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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" 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. "
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Giving
" I believe in music. "
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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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Connections
" 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. "
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" Critics do their job, and I take their criticism seriously. "
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" New York for a long time was a kind of conductor's graveyard. "
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" I would convert to Judaism if the operation didn't hurt so much. "
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" I have a few homes, and Los Angeles is certainly one of them. "
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Them
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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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" 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 life is so full of sacrifices. "
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" 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. "
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" Indian hotels are doing well globally because they understand hospitality. "
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" I am jealous of all those people who live on the shore of Dal Lake. "
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" I love to conduct opera. "
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" I'm very much tied to the state of Israel, but I am against their policy of settlements in Palestine. "
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