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I believe in music.

I love rap because it talks about pain that comes authentically from the ghetto. It moves me.

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

Rock music is predictable, unless there's great talent involved.

I'm hopeful that Israelis can go to Ramallah whenever they want and see how the people are living.

It's hard to find an emblem of cultural, national pride that burns as bright as Israel's success in classical music.

The amount of culture going on in a small country like Israel is amazing.

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

In Chicago, they die for their teams.

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

Zubin Mehta