A Quote by Zubin Mehta

After conducting Wagner, Beethoven's triple concerto is like taking an Alka Seltzer.

Zubin Mehta

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After Beethoven Concerto Conducting Like Taking Triple Wagner

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Zubin Mehta
Indian - Musician
Born: April 29, 1936

Culture is a little like dropping an Alka-Seltzer into a glass - you don't see it, but somehow it does something.

Hans Magnus Enzensberger

Culture is a little like dropping an Alka- Seltzer into a glass- you don't see it, but somehow it does something

Hans Magnus Enzensberger

My wife has to be the worst cook. I've got the only dog who begs for alka-seltzer.

Rodney Dangerfield

That was the Alka-Seltzer moment, the moment when the tablet hits the water and begins to fizz.

Trevor Baylis

I have an Alka-Seltzer bat. You know-plop, plop, fizz, fizz, when the pitcher sees me walking up there he says, 'Oh, what a relief it is'.

Andy Van Slyke

If you mess up the tiniest little thing in the Beethoven concerto, or the phrasing isn't just exactly perfectly executed, Beethoven brings out the worst in the best violinist. You almost never hear a satisfying performance, because it doesn't play itself.

Joshua Bell

Beethoven, Wagner, Bach, and Mozart settled down day after day to the job in hand. They didn't waste time waiting for inspiration.

Ernest Newman

I just loved going fast. So I started out with Alka-Seltzer and soda water in a bottle and attached it to the skateboard. That didn't do much. I would try a leaf blower. I was searching for anything that would go fast. Then, the lawnmower engine.

Kellan Lutz

I find little in the works of Beethoven, Berlioz, Wagner and others when they are led by a conductor who functions like a windmill.

Franz Liszt

Even if you're playing Brahms or a Beethoven concerto, you've got to have a different vantage point, slightly, each time.

Nigel Kennedy

Western culture is what gave us Mozart, and Da Vinci, and Wagner, and Beethoven.

Milo Yiannopoulos

I never thought home runs were all that exciting. I still think the triple is the most exciting thing in baseball. To me, a triple is like a guy taking the ball on his 1-yard line and running 99 yards for a touchdown.