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" There are three orchestras in Munich, all world-quality, in a city of one million. Yet every hall is full. "

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

" 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. "

" In Chicago, they die for their teams. "

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

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

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

" My life is so full of sacrifices. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" One shouldn't know the future. "

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

" I love India. "

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

" 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. "

" If North American musicians would only know how uncomfortable life is for European musicians. "

" 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? "

" I have had bullets flying at concerts, but I don't want to talk about that. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" After conducting Wagner, Beethoven's triple concerto is like taking an Alka Seltzer. "

" I'm really not a party person. I'm in the business of working with 100 people every day, so I don't revel in meeting a roomful of people in my leisure time. "

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

" 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. "

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