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" 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. "

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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. "

Zubin Mehta

Business

Meeting

People

" 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. "

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

" I'm very much tied to the state of Israel, but I am against their policy of settlements in Palestine. "

Zubin Mehta

Israel

Against

" Wagner's philosophy had absolutely nothing to do with Bruckner. Bruckner hadn't written a single word against Jews. Wagner's book on the Jews was one of the most infamous books of the 19th century. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" In Chicago, they die for their teams. "

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

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

" 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. "

" Why does Israel always have to suffer for others to feel bad for it? "

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

" 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. "

" My family and relatives alone could fill Shanmukhananda Hall in Bombay. "

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

" I am an Indian, so I do yoga. "

Zubin Mehta

I Am

Indian

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

" Bruckner's Eighth is a colossus. "

Zubin Mehta

Eighth

" My tastes are Viennese. "

Zubin Mehta

Tastes

" The 'New York Times' reviews of my work have been evenly divided - favourable and unfavourable. "

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "