After Quote by Zubin Mehta

If they will let me go, I would leave Israel immediately. I would like to see the world, to exercise my freedom.

— Mordechai Vanunu

To this day I am indulgent toward orchestras that are trying to lift themselves in the world, while critics are busy assuring them that…

— Robertson Davies

I don't quite think I'm big enough to deserve an orchestra.

— Tim Minchin

It's a wonderful thing to play with symphony orchestras - I've played with many - but it's really special in Israel because you have…

— Jose Feliciano

I'm more authoritarian with the orchestras than I used to be. You need to hold your ground, I've noticed, or you'll be swept aside.

— Laurence Equilbey

I sometimes feel it is to my disadvantage that I have not conducted the Cleveland Orchestra or the Boston or Chicago symphonies, but then…

— Zubin Mehta

There is a mysterious way in which orchestras keep a sense of their history and what they've done. I still listen to the L.A.…

— Simon Rattle

I want to take the great tradition of the orchestra within me, to take what the orchestra offers.

— Andris Nelsons

I don't mind conducting the orchestra if I can play the violin.

— Edwin Land

I often wonder if I was destined to be a composer. I think I decided and I followed my star.

— Peter Sculthorpe

I left because you never asked me to stay.

— Anonymous

From time to time, the Vienna Philharmonic could play without a conductor because they are so good.

— Bernard Arnault