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I love to conduct opera.
I am an Indian, so I do yoga.
My life is so full of sacrifices.
In Chicago, they die for their teams.
I'm a pucca Indian. Bombay is my home.
I'm a Persian Jew, and we don't speak Hebrew.
There are people who think I am Israeli. That's rubbish.
One learns how to change gears within a concert repertoire.
Music is the message of peace, and music only brings peace.
Critics do their job, and I take their criticism seriously.
In this art form, in any art form, generalities are useless.
I have a few homes, and Los Angeles is certainly one of them.
New York for a long time was a kind of conductor's graveyard.
Rock music is predictable, unless theres great talent involved.
Rock music is predictable, unless there's great talent involved.
I endeavor that all orchestras I conduct sound Central European.
I would convert to Judaism if the operation didn't hurt so much.
I think conductors do spend too little time with their orchestras.
I am jealous of all those people who live on the shore of Dal Lake.
I always look at the work of fashion designers as if they were art.
Why does Israel always have to suffer for others to feel bad for it?
My family and relatives alone could fill Shanmukhananda Hall in Bombay.
The New York Philharmonic is a tremendous opportunity, a great orchestra.
The amount of culture going on in a small country like Israel is amazing.
Indian hotels are doing well globally because they understand hospitality.
As long as they keep building settlements, the world will be anti-Israeli.
I have had bullets flying at concerts, but I don't want to talk about that.
Citizens of India, Pakistan, and Kashmir need to come together and make music.
My temples are only in India. When I am in India, I go to the religious ceremonies.
After conducting Wagner, Beethoven's triple concerto is like taking an Alka Seltzer.
I just want to play for Hindus and Muslims that sit together. That's all I want to do.
I respect the Indian government for the fact that there are no settlements in Kashmir.
Most Arab Israelis speak Hebrew, but not the other way around. It's about time that changed.
I love rap because it talks about pain that comes authentically from the ghetto. It moves me.
If North American musicians would only know how uncomfortable life is for European musicians.
The 'New York Times' reviews of my work have been evenly divided - favourable and unfavourable.
I knew at university that medicine was just not for me. I saved many lives by not being a doctor!
I'm hopeful that Israelis can go to Ramallah whenever they want and see how the people are living.
Even in music concerts in Mumbai and different parts of the world, seats are reserved for sponsors.
We are so indebted to our ancestors, musically speaking, that they have left us 400 years of music.
I'm very much tied to the state of Israel, but I am against their policy of settlements in Palestine.
Israel gives the West Bank water twice a week! One way of promoting good would be not to ration water.
You might say that Richard Wagner was the Queen Victoria of Europe. He had musical children everywhere!
There are three orchestras in Munich, all world-quality, in a city of one million. Yet every hall is full.
There are certainly talented instrumentalists coming from India. I see them performing all over the world.
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.
An American orchestra doesn't want to play more than it has to. I respectfully disagree with that attitude.
I am often critical of Israel's policies when in the country, but then feel defensive of them when overseas.
All these people who scream about Kashmir being an armed camp are in fact responsible for keeping it that way.
New York is really the place to be; to go to New York, you're going to the center of the world, the lion's den.