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Zubin Mehta

Profession : Musician

Birth : April 29, 1936

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

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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.

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I'm very much tied to the state of Israel, but I am against their policy of settlements in Palestine.

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I would convert to Judaism if the operation didn't hurt so much.

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Indian hotels are doing well globally because they understand hospitality.

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Rock music is predictable, unless there's great talent involved.

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

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

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My life is so full of sacrifices.

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

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

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

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

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

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The amount of culture going on in a small country like Israel is amazing.

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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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In Chicago, they die for their teams.

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