Zubin Mehta Quotes

Great music is great music, period.

There are times when what's happening in rock is the best music in the world, and there are times when there is nothing worthwhile at all.

As the years go by, I realize how unique a style rock music is and how delicate you have to be with it sometimes; otherwise, you turn it into pop music or progressive rock or something else.

There are more bad musicians than there is bad music.

I'm dead serious about my craft and just really serious about making music in itself. I take pride in making songs and albums where no two songs sound alike. That's the challenge and that's what it's all about, to keep it original and fresh and funky.

Melodic invention is one of the surest signs of a divine gift.

What's cool about indie rock is that one band can do effectively the same thing as another band, and one band nails it, and the other one doesn't. I like that elusiveness.

They're simply following what was laid down in front and they play the same thing. So, there's no great challenge In being a classical drummer.

I'm not saying that people have to listen to rock music. It's a great, cool thing and it can really be liberating for a lot of people but, hey, so can Charles Dickens so I'm not going to judge.

No matter how long you play rock n roll songs might change just as the balls are there, the rock balls. And that's what's important to us.

Great music is great music. It doesn't matter what genre it belongs.

I'm not terribly happy about rock and roll. Certain rock music is uninspiring, numbing; it makes you feel like an idiot.

When you hear Bach or Mozart, you hear perfection. Remember that Bach, Mozart and Beethoven were great improvisers. I can hear that in their music.

What's great about music is it takes so many kinds of people, including me. Everybody is in a different place.

For whatever reason, not all people are born with the particular gift of being able to express ourselves through music. And, believe me, it is a gift.

See, to me, rock'n'roll doesn't have any point. It's just fun. It has a million different angles and they're all valid. But I think rock might be a world issue.

To understand Mozart's contradictory qualities would indeed be to understand genius.

I don't set goals for myself too much, but I'm always trying to write that one great song.

Obviously you have to have rhythm. If you have rhythm, then you can play anything you need. If you have rhythm and you love music, then play and play and play until you get to where you want to get. If you can pay the rent, great. If you can't, then you'd better be having fun.

I think the people who are saying jazz has to sound a particular way, or, 'What you're doing isn't jazz,' are just scared because they can't do it. A lot of them just aren't talented enough to do anything new, honestly.

Composers are very individual creatures.

One of our biggest pet peeves is listening to bands that use harmony guitars for the sake of it. If you can't figure out how do something different than Maiden, UFO, or even Boston, then what's the point?

Mozart combined high formality and playfulness that delights as no other composition in any other medium does.

I've always had a close connection to both rock and classical music.

To me the bottom line is: good music is good music.