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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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" In Chicago, they die for their teams. "

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

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

" I am always hearing from Israelis, 'Oh, CNN is anti-Israel,' or 'BBC is against us.' But no, they are reporting facts. "

" My life is so full of sacrifices. "

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

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

" One shouldn't know the future. "

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

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

" As long as they keep building settlements, the world will be anti-Israeli. "

" 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. "

" Even in music concerts in Mumbai and different parts of the world, seats are reserved for sponsors. "

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

" 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. "

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

" It's hard to find an emblem of cultural, national pride that burns as bright as Israel's success in classical music. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Most Arab Israelis speak Hebrew, but not the other way around. It's about time that changed. "

" Why does Israel always have to suffer for others to feel bad for it? "

" I always look at the work of fashion designers as if they were art. "

" 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. "

" In truth, I became a conductor because deep down I wanted to conduct Brahms's four symphonies and Richard Strauss's tone poems. "

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

" I wish that only three residents of Tel Aviv could see what conditions on the West Bank are like. Living in such proximity, most Israelis have no idea about the adversity on the West Bank. "

" 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 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. "

" My tastes are Viennese. "