Top 91 Quotes & Sayings by Zubin Mehta - Page 2

I love to conduct opera.

I endeavor that all orchestras I conduct sound Central European.

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.

I have been to Kashmir many times, especially with my family, in the '70s.

I've known Pinchas Zukerman since he was a teenager.

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

Indian hotels are doing well globally because they understand hospitality.

There is a school in Israel called Hand in Hand which I support. There Arab and Jewish students study together on a daily basis.

I respect the Indian government for the fact that there are no settlements in Kashmir.

Even in music concerts in Mumbai and different parts of the world, seats are reserved for sponsors.

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?

I am an Indian, so I do yoga.

The 'New York Times' reviews of my work have been evenly divided - favourable and unfavourable.

I love the creativity of New York, but I don't enjoy the city - I don't like living here.

My family and relatives alone could fill Shanmukhananda Hall in Bombay.

American musicians are very giving - they have the highest standard in the world - but they are also very demanding in their conditions.

There are certainly talented instrumentalists coming from India. I see them performing all over the world.

All these people who scream about Kashmir being an armed camp are in fact responsible for keeping it that way.

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.

If you can sing together, you can live together.

Critics do their job, and I take their criticism seriously.

I knew at university that medicine was just not for me. I saved many lives by not being a doctor!

My temples are only in India. When I am in India, I go to the religious ceremonies.

Though there is such a rich tradition of culture and arts, I have never been invited to perform at a concert in South India.

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.

In this art form, in any art form, generalities are useless.

In truth, I became a conductor because deep down I wanted to conduct Brahmss four symphonies and Richard Strausss tone poems.

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.

...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.

A woman's life in the orchestra is not as long as a man's; she is just not as good at 60 as a man is at 60.

Rock music is predictable, unless theres great talent involved.