Top 84 Quotes by Zubin Mehta

In truth, I became a conductor because deep down I wanted to conduct Brahms's four symphonies and Richard Strauss's tone poems.

I feel growing up in Mumbai is an advantage, as we grow up speaking so many languages that when we go abroad, it becomes easier to learn new languages.

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

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

I love to conduct opera.

My temples are only in India. When I am in India, I go to the religious ceremonies.

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.

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 always look at the work of fashion designers as if they were art.

New York for a long time was a kind of conductor's graveyard.