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" In Chicago, they die for their teams. "

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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. "

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

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

" I love the creativity of New York, but I don't enjoy the city - I don't like living here. "

" I am not only a Parsi, I am a Kashmiri too. "

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

" 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. "

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

" Indian hotels are doing well globally because they understand hospitality. "

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

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

" We are so indebted to our ancestors, musically speaking, that they have left us 400 years of music. "

" 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 am an Indian, so I do yoga. "

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

" My parents had chosen the medical profession for me. I even studied a few semesters at St Xavier's College, but at the back of my mind, I always wanted to be a musician like my father. "

" 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. "

" I would convert to Judaism if the operation didn't hurt so much. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" There are three orchestras in Munich, all world-quality, in a city of one million. Yet every hall is full. "

" Bruckner's Eighth is a colossus. "

" If North American musicians would only know how uncomfortable life is for European musicians. "

" 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. "

" 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. "