Zubin Mehta Quotes

I love rap because it talks about pain that comes authentically from the ghetto. It moves me.

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

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.

It's hard to find an emblem of cultural, national pride that burns as bright as Israel's success in classical 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.

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.

There are three orchestras in Munich, all world-quality, in a city of one million. Yet every hall is full.

Rock music is predictable, unless theres great talent involved.

I am jealous of all those people who live on the shore of Dal Lake.

...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.

Indian hotels are doing well globally because they understand hospitality.

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.

My parents had chosen the medical profession for me. I even studied a few semesters at St Xavier's College, but at the back of my mind, I always wanted to be a musician like my father.

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

An American orchestra doesn't want to play more than it has to. I respectfully disagree with that attitude.