Indian hotels are doing well globally because they understand hospitality.

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

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

A woman's life in the orchestra is not as long as a man's; she is just not as good at 60 as a man is at 60.

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

In this art form, in any art form, generalities are useless.

In truth, I became a conductor because deep down I wanted to conduct Brahmss four symphonies and Richard Strausss tone poems.

Although I am flexible and ready to take advice, I can't carry an umbrella of thoughts over my head that would distract me and affect my music making.

I feel that the critic and music director should have such a good relationship they can pick up the phone and call each other any time.

There are three orchestras in Munich, all world-quality, in a city of one million. Yet every hall is full.

Rock music is predictable, unless theres great talent involved.

Success is most often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.

You shall find dear, that the world is full of two-faced people and phonies.'.. And Uruvi was to discover a cruelly superficial world, which she had failed to recognize.

We not only romanticize the future; we have also made it into a growth industry, a parlor game and a disaster movie all at the same time.

I am simply a human being who is fascinated by the life process.

Throughout life, from childhood, from school until we die, we are taught to compare ourselves with another; yet when I compare myself with another I am destroying myself.

I try to see what that person is thinking or feeling about that particular day. I just get more of a sense of what that person's like and hopefully it's more interesting than a normal conversation.

Heavy is the root of light.

Every man has a right to a Saturday night bath.

If no one else, the dying must notice how unreal, how full of pretense, is all that we accomplish here, where nothing is allowed to be itself.

Like I've always said, what's hot must go cold.