Quotes by Zubin Mehta

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Zubin Mehta is an Indian conductor of Western classical music. He is the Music Director for Life of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra and the Main Conductor for Valencia's opera house. Mehta is also the chief conductor of Maggio Musicale Fiorentino festival.
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An American orchestra doesn't want to play more than it has to. I respectfully disagree with that attitude.

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

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The amount of culture going on in a small country like Israel is amazing.

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I always look at the work of fashion designers as if they were art.

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I've never said, 'I live for art.'

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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.

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

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I'm a pucca Indian. Bombay is my home.

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One learns how to change gears within a concert repertoire.

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Rock music is predictable, unless there's great talent involved.

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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,...

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The New York Philharmonic is a tremendous opportunity, a great orchestra.

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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 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.

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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 const...

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

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One shouldn't know the future.

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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.

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My life is so full of sacrifices.

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If North American musicians would only know how uncomfortable life is for European musicians.

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Author Bio

  • NameZubin Mehta
  • DescriptionIndian conductor
  • BornApril 29, 1936
  • CountryIndia
  • ProfessionConductor
  • AwardsIsrael Prize; Bavarian Order Of Merit; Grand Merit Cross Of The Order Of Merit Of The Federal Republic Of Germany; Padma Vibhushan; Gold Decoration For Services To The City Of Vienna; Israel Prize; Großes Silbernes Ehrenzeichen Für Verdienste Um Die Republik Österreich; Padma Bhushan; Praemium Imperiale