Quotes by Zubin Mehta - Page 2

It's hard to find an emblem of cultural, national pride that burns as bright as Israel's success in classical music.
Zubin Mehta / Conductor
Classical Music
Israel
Pride
Bright
Burns
Classical
Cultural
Emblem
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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.
Zubin Mehta / Conductor
Life My Life New
High Point
Standard
Philharmonic
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I am always hearing from Israelis, 'Oh, CNN is anti-Israel,' or 'BBC is against us.' But no, they are reporting facts.
Zubin Mehta / Conductor
Cnn
Facts
Bbc
Israelis
Reporting
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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 / Conductor
Invited
Concert
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In truth, I became a conductor because deep down I wanted to conduct Brahmss four symphonies and Richard Strausss tone poems.
Zubin Mehta / Conductor
Four
Symphony
Tone
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In truth, I became a conductor because deep down I wanted to conduct Brahms's four symphonies and Richard Strauss's tone poems.
Zubin Mehta / Conductor
Deep Down
Tone
Conduct
Symphonies
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There is a school in Israel called Hand in Hand which I support. There Arab and Jewish students study together on a daily basis.
Zubin Mehta / Conductor
Jewish
Arab
Basis
Daily
Daily Basis
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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.
Zubin Mehta / Conductor
Good Relationship
Phones
Should Have
Time Good Relationship
Critic
Phone
Music Director
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American musicians are very giving - they have the highest standard in the world - but they are also very demanding in their conditions.
Zubin Mehta / Conductor
Conditions
Demanding
Standard
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Although I am flexible and ready to take advice, I can't carry an umbrella of thoughts over my head that would distract me and affect my music making.
Zubin Mehta / Conductor
Advice
Ready
Umbrella
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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.
Zubin Mehta / Conductor
Fixed
Incomes
Philharmonic
Rehearsals
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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.
Zubin Mehta / Conductor
Advantage
Mumbai
Abroad
Languages
Grow Up
Speaking
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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.
Zubin Mehta / Conductor
Arab
Leave
Estate
Let Go
Neither
Piece
Real Estate
Shores
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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.
Zubin Mehta / Conductor
Leisure
Leisure Time
Time Business Day
Meeting
Roomful
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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.
Zubin Mehta / Conductor
Thank You
Musical
Prefer
Phone
Pick
Thank
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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.
Zubin Mehta / Conductor
Private Sector
Concert
Concert Hall
Financially
Hall
Industries
Sector
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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.
Zubin Mehta / Conductor
Chosen
Musician
Profession
Studied
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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.
Zubin Mehta / Conductor
Adversity
Conditions
No Idea
Proximity
Residents
West
Bank
Israelis
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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.
Zubin Mehta / Conductor
Bombing
Hussein
Saddam
Time People Win
Saddam Hussein
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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.
Zubin Mehta / Conductor
Absolutely Nothing
Book
Century
Infamous
Philosophy
Single
Single Word
Wagner
Absolutely
Word
Jews
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...Ori Kam is an outstanding violist who has already played as a soloist with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra twice, much to our delight and satisfaction, and has availed himself with distinction.
Zubin Mehta / Conductor
Israel
Orchestra
Satisfaction
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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.
Zubin Mehta / Conductor
Excellence
Institute
Nobel
Count
Emerged
Scientific
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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.
Zubin Mehta / Conductor
Boston
Chicago
Cleveland
Enough Time
Orchestra
Sacrifice
Disadvantage
Time Sometimes Feel
Symphonies
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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.
Zubin Mehta / Conductor
Connections
Conductors
Push
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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.
Zubin Mehta / Conductor
Concerts
Unthinkable
Void
Effect
Every Single Day
Single Day
Thousands
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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.
Zubin Mehta / Conductor
Newspapers
Orchestra
Expressed
Philharmonic
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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?
Zubin Mehta / Conductor
Bombay
Delhi
Indian
Indian Music
Venues
Western
Time Power Music
Capital
Concert
Concert Hall
Hall
High Time
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Essentially, the [New York] Philharmonic is just like any other orchestra-they all have the spirit of kids, and if you scratch away a little of the fatigue and cynicism, out comes a 17-year-old music student again, full of wonder, exuberance and a tremendous love of music.
Zubin Mehta / Conductor
Kids
New York
Years
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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.
Zubin Mehta / Conductor
Conductor
Direct
Orchestra
Nature Good Great
Good Thing
Hall
Philharmonic
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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.
Zubin Mehta / Conductor
Italian
Little Help
Self Taught
Teens
Violin
Accountant
Bought
Trained
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