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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love rap because it talks about pain that comes authentically from the ghetto. It moves me.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm hopeful that Israelis can go to Ramallah whenever they want and see how the people are living.
- Hard
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's hard to find an emblem of cultural, national pride that burns as bright as Israel's success in classical music.
- High Point
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- Nov 07, 2020
I miss the standard of the New York Philharmonic's playing very much. It has certainly been a high point in my life.
- Die
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- Nov 07, 2020
In Chicago, they die for their teams.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
One shouldn't know the future.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Excellence
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Israel
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- Nov 07, 2020
Israel gives the West Bank water twice a week! One way of promoting good would be not to ration water.
- I Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe in music.
- Tastes
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- Nov 07, 2020
My tastes are Viennese.
- Queen
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- Nov 07, 2020
You might say that Richard Wagner was the Queen Victoria of Europe. He had musical children everywhere!
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm very much tied to the state of Israel, but I am against their policy of settlements in Palestine.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am not only a Parsi, I am a Kashmiri too.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are people who think I am Israeli. That's rubbish.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Attitude
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- Nov 07, 2020
An American orchestra doesn't want to play more than it has to. I respectfully disagree with that attitude.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Music is the message of peace, and music only brings peace.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Open rehearsals reach people who might not otherwise hear the Philharmonic - people on fixed incomes, people who can't move easily at night, students.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Nov 07, 2020
Bruckner's Eighth is a colossus.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
If North American musicians would only know how uncomfortable life is for European musicians.
- Jew
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a Persian Jew, and we don't speak Hebrew.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a pucca Indian. Bombay is my home.
- India
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love India.
- Leave
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Concerto
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- Nov 07, 2020
After conducting Wagner, Beethoven's triple concerto is like taking an Alka Seltzer.
- Lion
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
My life is so full of sacrifices.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've never said, 'I live for art.'
- Los
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a few homes, and Los Angeles is certainly one of them.
- Every
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are three orchestras in Munich, all world-quality, in a city of one million. Yet every hall is full.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am often critical of Israel's policies when in the country, but then feel defensive of them when overseas.
- Poor
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- Nov 07, 2020
As soon as, say, Saddam Hussein started bombing Israel with Scuds, everyone was like, 'Poor Israel.' But when Israel retaliates - and most of the time they then win - people turn against them.
- Facts
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am always hearing from Israelis, 'Oh, CNN is anti-Israel,' or 'BBC is against us.' But no, they are reporting facts.
- Left
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are so indebted to our ancestors, musically speaking, that they have left us 400 years of music.
- Deep
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- Nov 07, 2020
In truth, I became a conductor because deep down I wanted to conduct Brahms's four symphonies and Richard Strauss's tone poems.
- Nov 07, 2020
If you can sing together, you can live together.
- Gears
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- Nov 07, 2020
One learns how to change gears within a concert repertoire.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
My temples are only in India. When I am in India, I go to the religious ceremonies.
- I Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love to conduct opera.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am an Indian, so I do yoga.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
All these people who scream about Kashmir being an armed camp are in fact responsible for keeping it that way.
- Doctor
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- Nov 07, 2020
I knew at university that medicine was just not for me. I saved many lives by not being a doctor!
- Known
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've known Pinchas Zukerman since he was a teenager.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020