It seems always to have been difficult to have been a New York Philharmonic conductor because of the nature of New York. We are in direct competition with the great orchestras in the world who come to play in our hall or in Carnegie, and we are constantly compared. I think that 's a good thing.
More Quotes by Zubin Mehta
An American orchestra doesn't want to play more than it has to. I respectfully disagree with that attitude.
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.
Music is the message of peace, and music only brings peace.
New York for a long time was a kind of conductor's graveyard.
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 think conductors do spend too little time with their orchestras.