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" Most Arab Israelis speak Hebrew, but not the other way around. It's about time that changed. "
Zubin Mehta
Most
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" I love to conduct opera. "
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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
" 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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" An American orchestra doesn't want to play more than it has to. I respectfully disagree with that attitude. "
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Play
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" I am jealous of all those people who live on the shore of Dal Lake. "
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People
I Am
Jealous
" One shouldn't know the future. "
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Future
" Citizens of India, Pakistan, and Kashmir need to come together and make music. "
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Together
Pakistan
" The 'New York Times' reviews of my work have been evenly divided - favourable and unfavourable. "
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New
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" Israel gives the West Bank water twice a week! One way of promoting good would be not to ration water. "
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Week
Way
Water
" I knew at university that medicine was just not for me. I saved many lives by not being a doctor! "
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Just
Doctor
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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. "
Zubin Mehta
Nothing
Philosophy
Book
" My tastes are Viennese. "
Zubin Mehta
Tastes
" Bruckner's Eighth is a colossus. "
Zubin Mehta
Eighth
" The New York Philharmonic is a tremendous opportunity, a great orchestra. "
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Great
York
Opportunity
" I have been to Kashmir many times, especially with my family, in the '70s. "
Zubin Mehta
Kashmir
Family
Many
" I've known Pinchas Zukerman since he was a teenager. "
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Teenager
Since
Known
" Indian hotels are doing well globally because they understand hospitality. "
Zubin Mehta
Well
Hospitality
Doing
" In truth, I became a conductor because deep down I wanted to conduct Brahms's four symphonies and Richard Strauss's tone poems. "
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Four
Tone
Truth
" My family and relatives alone could fill Shanmukhananda Hall in Bombay. "
Zubin Mehta
Relatives
Hall
Family
" I always look at the work of fashion designers as if they were art. "
Zubin Mehta
Work
Art
Always
" 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. "
Zubin Mehta
Nothing
Building
City
" 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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Growing Up
Feel
Learn
" New York for a long time was a kind of conductor's graveyard. "
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Kind
Long
Time
" I'm a pucca Indian. Bombay is my home. "
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Home
Bombay
Indian
" I believe in music. "
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Believe
I Believe
Music
" My temples are only in India. When I am in India, I go to the religious ceremonies. "
Zubin Mehta
India
Go
I Am
" I'm a Persian Jew, and we don't speak Hebrew. "
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Jew
Persian
Speak
" I am an Indian, so I do yoga. "
Zubin Mehta
Am
I Am
Indian
" 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. "
Zubin Mehta
Time
Feel
Sacrifice
" 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. "
Zubin Mehta
Push
Opportunities
Connections