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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. "
Zubin Mehta
Living
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Three
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" Citizens of India, Pakistan, and Kashmir need to come together and make music. "
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" It's hard to find an emblem of cultural, national pride that burns as bright as Israel's success in classical music. "
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" 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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" I've never said, 'I live for art.' "
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" 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. "
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" If you can sing together, you can live together. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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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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Me
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" I respect the Indian government for the fact that there are no settlements in Kashmir. "
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Fact
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" One shouldn't know the future. "
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" I love to conduct opera. "
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" I just want to play for Hindus and Muslims that sit together. That's all I want to do. "
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" Israel gives the West Bank water twice a week! One way of promoting good would be not to ration water. "
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Way
Water
" Rock music is predictable, unless there's great talent involved. "
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" I've known Pinchas Zukerman since he was a teenager. "
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Since
Known
" There are people who think I am Israeli. That's rubbish. "
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Who
Am
" I am always hearing from Israelis, 'Oh, CNN is anti-Israel,' or 'BBC is against us.' But no, they are reporting facts. "
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Always
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" There are certainly talented instrumentalists coming from India. I see them performing all over the world. "
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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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" Why does Israel always have to suffer for others to feel bad for it? "
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Others
" I'm a pucca Indian. Bombay is my home. "
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Bombay
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" My family and relatives alone could fill Shanmukhananda Hall in Bombay. "
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" I endeavor that all orchestras I conduct sound Central European. "
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Sound
Central
" American musicians are very giving - they have the highest standard in the world - but they are also very demanding in their conditions. "
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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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" There are three orchestras in Munich, all world-quality, in a city of one million. Yet every hall is full. "
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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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" I'm a Persian Jew, and we don't speak Hebrew. "
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