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

" My life is so full of sacrifices. "

" Bruckner's Eighth is a colossus. "

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

" 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. "

" Though there is such a rich tradition of culture and arts, I have never been invited to perform at a concert in South India. "

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

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

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

" I love to conduct opera. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" I respect the Indian government for the fact that there are no settlements in Kashmir. "

" In Bombay, we have a fine concert hall. I think it is high time we built venues in Delhi and Calcutta, not only for western music, but also Indian music. It doesn't matter which party is in power; don't you think the capital of India should have a concert hall? "

" All these people who scream about Kashmir being an armed camp are in fact responsible for keeping it that way. "

" There are certainly talented instrumentalists coming from India. I see them performing all over the world. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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 believe in music. "

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

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