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" I'm a Persian Jew, and we don't speak Hebrew. "

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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. "

" 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 always look at the work of fashion designers as if they were art. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" There are people who think I am Israeli. That's rubbish. "

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

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

" I love India. "

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

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

" I love to conduct opera. "

" The amount of culture going on in a small country like Israel is amazing. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I am jealous of all those people who live on the shore of Dal Lake. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" Open rehearsals reach people who might not otherwise hear the Philharmonic - people on fixed incomes, people who can't move easily at night, students. "

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

" American musicians are very giving - they have the highest standard in the world - but they are also very demanding in their conditions. "