Zubin Mehta Quotes

"Music is the message of peace, and music only brings peace."

"If you can sing together, you can live together."

"I believe in music."

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

"I just want to play for Hindus and Muslims that sit together. That's all I want to do."

"Citizens of India, Pakistan, and Kashmir need to come together and make music."

"I love India."

"I'm a pucca Indian. Bombay is my home."

"My family and relatives alone could fill Shanmukhananda Hall in Bombay."

"I am an Indian, so I do yoga."

"I am not only a Parsi, I am a Kashmiri too."

"I am jealous of all those people who live on the shore of Dal Lake."

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

"I've never said, 'I live for art.'"

"My life is so full of sacrifices."

"One shouldn't know the future."

"I love to conduct opera."

"I think conductors do spend too little time with their orchestras."

"One learns how to change gears within a concert repertoire."

"Critics do their job, and I take their criticism seriously."

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

"New York is really the place to be; to go to New York, you're going to the center of the world, the lion's den."

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

"You might say that Richard Wagner was the Queen Victoria of Europe. He had musical children everywhere!"

"After conducting Wagner, Beethoven's triple concerto is like taking an Alka Seltzer."