Zubin Mehta quotes
Rock music is predictable, unless there's great talent involved.
Rock music is predictable, unless there's great talent involved.
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.
I love rap because it talks about pain that comes authentically from the ghetto. It moves me.
In truth, I became a conductor because deep down I wanted to conduct Brahms's four symphonies and Richard Strauss's tone poems.
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.
New York for a long time was a kind of conductor's graveyard.
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.
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.
I always look at the work of fashion designers as if they were art.
I'm hopeful that Israelis can go to Ramallah whenever they want and see how the people are living.
Wagner's philosophy had absolutely nothing to do with Bruckner. Bruckner hadn't written a single word against Jews. Wagner's book on the Jews was one of the most infamous books of the 19th century.
There was an opinion expressed in the newspapers that, after 20 years, maybe the Israel Philharmonic should consider asking me to leave. I thought they might have a point, so I asked my orchestra. They told me overwhelmingly that they wanted me to stay.
The amount of culture going on in a small country like Israel is amazing.
Israel gives the West Bank water twice a week! One way of promoting good would be not to ration water.
I've never met an ugly millionaire. They all look cute. No wonder I married 4 of them
I've been married most of my life. And when you're married, you don't have sex.
Diamonds are a girl's best friend and dogs are a man's best friend. Now you know which sex has more sense.
As a woman, you have to choose between your fanny or your face. I chose my face.
A girl must marry for love, and keep on marrying until she finds it.