An American orchestra doesn’t want to play more than it has to. I respectfully disagree with that attitude. Zubin Mehta
American musicians are very giving – they have the highest standard in the world – but they are also very demanding in their conditions. Zubin Mehta
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. Zubin Mehta
It would be against all nature for all the Negroes to be either at the bottom, top, or in between. We will go where the internal drive carries us like everybody else. It is up to the individual. Zora Neale Hurston
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