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" 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. "

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Success

Bright

Music

" 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? "

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

" I have been to Kashmir many times, especially with my family, in the '70s. "

" In Chicago, they die for their teams. "

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

" 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. "

Zubin Mehta

Opinion

Leave

" Bruckner's Eighth is a colossus. "

Zubin Mehta

Eighth

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

" I'm a Persian Jew, and we don't speak Hebrew. "

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

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

" 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. "

" Critics do their job, and I take their criticism seriously. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" My tastes are Viennese. "

Zubin Mehta

Tastes

" 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. "

" I love rap because it talks about pain that comes authentically from the ghetto. It moves me. "

Zubin Mehta

Because

Rap

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

Zubin Mehta

Think

Who

" New York for a long time was a kind of conductor's graveyard. "

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

" I feel that the critic and music director should have such a good relationship they can pick up the phone and call each other any time. "