Citizens of India, Pakistan, and Kashmir need to come together and make music.
As long as they keep building settlements, the world will be anti-Israeli.
I am an Indian, so I do yoga.
Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains.
What advice do I tell my grandson? I listen to him.
A conductor should guide rather than command.
Composers should write tunes that chauffeurs and errand boys can whistle.
No operatic star has yet died soon enough for me.
A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.
My love life is like everyone else's - great, and then terrible.
When you go on the stage before thousands of people, you can be excited and nervous, but it's not fear.
So for you people who are filled with fear that I might someday be released: breathe easy, I don't see it happening.
For many people, music is here to let them forget the daily chores of life.
So I observe life a little bit, rather than participating in it.
When you love somebody and they die young and you are young, too, it is very hard.
Even when you are not playing you are holding me back.
I don't mean to make you nervous, but unfortunately I have to.
1972 was a year of many pleasant and rewarding experiences for me:
This has been my vocation to make music of what remains.
...how absurd human beings are and how magnificent.
New York for a long time was a kind of conductor's graveyard.
