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" Though there is such a rich tradition of culture and arts, I have never been invited to perform at a concert in South India. "
Zubin Mehta
India
Tradition
Concert
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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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" 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. "
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" You might say that Richard Wagner was the Queen Victoria of Europe. He had musical children everywhere! "
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" I miss the standard of the New York Philharmonic's playing very much. It has certainly been a high point in my life. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" Why does Israel always have to suffer for others to feel bad for it? "
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" I have been to Kashmir many times, especially with my family, in the '70s. "
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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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" I would convert to Judaism if the operation didn't hurt so much. "
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" I'm a Persian Jew, and we don't speak Hebrew. "
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" 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. "
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