Zubin Mehta Quotes

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Zubin Mehta

Profession : Musician

Birth : April 29, 1936

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

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One shouldn't know the future.

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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.

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

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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.

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

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I believe in music.

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My tastes are Viennese.

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I am not only a Parsi, I am a Kashmiri too.

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

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I am jealous of all those people who live on the shore of Dal Lake.

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

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It seems always to have been difficult to have been a New York Philharmonic conductor because of the nature of New York. We are in direct competition with the great orchestras in the world who come to play in our hall or in Carnegie, and we are constantly compared. I think that 's a good thing.

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

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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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Open rehearsals reach people who might not otherwise hear the Philharmonic - people on fixed incomes, people who can't move easily at night, students.

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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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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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Bruckner's Eighth is a colossus.

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