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The New York Philharmonic is a tremendous opportunity, a great orchestra.
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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.
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I'm very much tied to the state of Israel, but I am against their policy of settlements in Palestine.
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I have had bullets flying at concerts, but I don't want to talk about that.
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I would convert to Judaism if the operation didn't hurt so much.
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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.
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I am always hearing from Israelis, 'Oh, CNN is anti-Israel,' or 'BBC is against us.' But no, they are reporting facts.
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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.
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I just want to play for Hindus and Muslims that sit together. That's all I want to do.
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An American orchestra doesn't want to play more than it has to. I respectfully disagree with that attitude.
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Citizens of India, Pakistan, and Kashmir need to come together and make music.
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Rock music is predictable, unless there's great talent involved.
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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.
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I love rap because it talks about pain that comes authentically from the ghetto. It moves me.
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In truth, I became a conductor because deep down I wanted to conduct Brahms's four symphonies and Richard Strauss's tone poems.
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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.
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New York for a long time was a kind of conductor's graveyard.
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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.
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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.
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I always look at the work of fashion designers as if they were art.
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