Zubin J Shroff Quotes

Anyway, so you take your space and hook it into the spaces of others, and it becomes this massive network of hooked profiles and spaced out stuff that gives rise to all kinds of newish social phenomena based on the mathematics of exponential expansion and the science of complexity. ~ Zubin J. Shroff

I'm a Persian Jew, and we don't speak Hebrew. ~ Zubin Mehta

I miss the standard of the New York Philharmonic's playing very much. It has certainly been a high point in my life. ~ Zubin Mehta

I'm very much tied to the state of Israel, but I am against their policy of settlements in Palestine. ~ Zubin Mehta

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. ~ Zubin Mehta

I love to conduct opera. ~ Zubin Mehta

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

There are people who think I am Israeli. That's rubbish. ~ Zubin Mehta

In this art form, in any art form, generalities are useless. ~ Zubin Mehta

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

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. ~ Zubin Mehta

As soon as, say, Saddam Hussein started bombing Israel with Scuds, everyone was like, 'Poor Israel.' But when Israel retaliates - and most of the time they then win - people turn against them. ~ Zubin Mehta

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

My life is so full of sacrifices. ~ Zubin Mehta

I have a few homes, and Los Angeles is certainly one of them. ~ Zubin Mehta

Open rehearsals reach people who might not otherwise hear the Philharmonic - people on fixed incomes, people who can't move easily at night, students. ~ Zubin Mehta

Critics do their job, and I take their criticism seriously. ~ Zubin Mehta

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

My tastes are Viennese. ~ Zubin Mehta

I'm hopeful that Israelis can go to Ramallah whenever they want and see how the people are living. ~ Zubin Mehta

I believe in music. ~ Zubin Mehta

One learns how to change gears within a concert repertoire. ~ Zubin Mehta

American musicians are very giving - they have the highest standard in the world - but they are also very demanding in their conditions. ~ Zubin Mehta

I sometimes feel it is to my disadvantage that I have not conducted the Cleveland Orchestra or the Boston or Chicago symphonies, but then I have had to sacrifice something in order to have enough time with my orchestras. ~ Zubin Mehta

I think conductors do spend too little time with their orchestras. ~ Zubin Mehta

One generation's pleasure became a burden for another. Hence, entire collections from father to son were sold for a song, and the vendors, knowing nothing about literature, would place a price on the books. (about secondhand literature book) ~ Murzban F. Shroff

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

We are so indebted to our ancestors, musically speaking, that they have left us 400 years of music. ~ Zubin Mehta

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

The 'New York Times' reviews of my work have been evenly divided - favourable and unfavourable. ~ Zubin Mehta

Go to the young conductors who are not making it, and you will hear how we shouldn't push ourselves or sell ourselves, how they don't have the right connections and the right opportunities. Well, you can be sure they've had the opportunities. ~ Zubin Mehta

When she saw a shooting star streak overhead, she asked her beloved what he wished for, and he said he only wished to sit there with her for as long as forever. ~ Zubin Mathai

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. ~ Zubin Mehta

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

There is a school in Israel called Hand in Hand which I support. There Arab and Jewish students study together on a daily basis. ~ Zubin Mehta

Some musical directors have more chutzpah. They pick up the phone and talk people into giving. I prefer to call and say 'thank you' after the money has been contributed. ~ Zubin Mehta

I endeavor that all orchestras I conduct sound Central European. ~ Zubin Mehta

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

I'm a pucca Indian. Bombay is my home. ~ Zubin Mehta

The private sector is growing so incredibly in India, in every city you have industries for whom building a concert hall would be nothing financially. But they just don't do it. ~ Zubin Mehta

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. ~ Zubin Mehta

Israel is a piece of real estate that neither Jew or Arab will let go of; neither will leave these shores. And so they will have to learn to live together. ~ Zubin Mehta

Most Arab Israelis speak Hebrew, but not the other way around. It's about time that changed. ~ Zubin Mehta

Why does Israel always have to suffer for others to feel bad for it? ~ Zubin Mehta

There are certainly talented instrumentalists coming from India. I see them performing all over the world. ~ Zubin Mehta

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

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. ~ Zubin Mehta

Israel gives the West Bank water twice a week! One way of promoting good would be not to ration water. ~ Zubin Mehta