“After conducting Wagner, Beethoven's triple concerto is like taking an...” — Zubin Mehta Quote

After conducting Wagner, Beethoven's triple concerto is like taking an Alka Seltzer.

We are so indebted to our ancestors, musically speaking, that they have left us 400 years of music.

I have been to Kashmir many times, especially with my family, in the '70s.

My tastes are Viennese.

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

On the night of Brexit, while some people were celebrating and others were having wakes, I stayed in and played Beethoven, his quartets mainly, into the small hours of the morning.

There are different people who got me into music, but what I liked about Beethoven is that even when I didn't understand it or it was too long, there's still something about it that drove me to it. Then it got me excited about actually learning music, like a theory of it.

We are a global society, and one does not have to be from Germany to give a great performance of Beethoven.

Concert pianists are really afraid to try out the Beethoven Fourth Concerto if the Third happens to be their specialty. That's the piece they had such success with on Long Island, by George, and it will surely bring them success in Connecticut. So first there's tremendous conservatism. And then stagnation sets in. Or it certainly did in me.