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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.

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My parents had chosen the medical profession for me. I even studied a few semesters at St Xavier's College, but at the back of my mind, I always wanted to be a musician like my father.

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

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

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

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

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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.

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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.

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

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Biography

Nationality: Indian

Type: Musician

Born: April 29th, 1936

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