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

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

" Citizens of India, Pakistan, and Kashmir need to come together and make music. "

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" Israel gives the West Bank water twice a week! One way of promoting good would be not to ration water. "

" I believe in music. "

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

" 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. "

" I knew at university that medicine was just not for me. I saved many lives by not being a doctor! "

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

" My tastes are Viennese. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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 love India. "

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

" 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. "

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

" I have been to Kashmir many times, especially with my family, in the '70s. "

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

" There is a school in Israel called Hand in Hand which I support. There Arab and Jewish students study together on a daily basis. "

" I've never said, 'I live for art.' "

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

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