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" I've never said, 'I live for art.' "
Zubin Mehta
Art
Never
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" I love India. "
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" New York for a long time was a kind of conductor's graveyard. "
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" One shouldn't know the future. "
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" 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. "
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" Wagner's philosophy had absolutely nothing to do with Bruckner. Bruckner hadn't written a single word against Jews. Wagner's book on the Jews was one of the most infamous books of the 19th century. "
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" An American orchestra doesn't want to play more than it has to. I respectfully disagree with that attitude. "
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" 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. "
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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 think conductors do spend too little time with their orchestras. "
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" 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. "
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You
" Citizens of India, Pakistan, and Kashmir need to come together and make music. "
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Together
Pakistan
" Why does Israel always have to suffer for others to feel bad for it? "
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Suffer
Others
" I have had bullets flying at concerts, but I don't want to talk about that. "
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Bullets
Talk
" 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? "
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" There are people who think I am Israeli. That's rubbish. "
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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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Opinion
Me
Leave
" Though there is such a rich tradition of culture and arts, I have never been invited to perform at a concert in South India. "
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" If North American musicians would only know how uncomfortable life is for European musicians. "
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" My tastes are Viennese. "
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