Zubin Mehta Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)
Zubin Mehta quotes and sayings page 4 (88 year old musician). Here's quote # 31 through 40 out of the 84 we have for him.
“I wish that only three residents of Tel Aviv could see what conditions on the West Bank are like. Living in such proximity, most Israelis have no idea about the adversity on the West Bank.”
“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.”
“Let's try to count the number of Nobel prize-winners that have emerged from scientific centres of excellence like the Weizmann Institute and Haifa's technical university, the Technion. There has to be at least 25.”
“I am always hearing from Israelis, 'Oh, CNN is anti-Israel,' or 'BBC is against us.' But no, they are reporting facts.”
“I love to conduct opera.”
“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 constantly compared. I think that 's a good thing.”
“In Chicago, they die for their teams.”
“American musicians are very giving - they have the highest standard in the world - but they are also very demanding in their conditions.”
“We are so indebted to our ancestors, musically speaking, that they have left us 400 years of music.”
“After conducting Wagner, Beethoven's triple concerto is like taking an Alka Seltzer.”
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