The violinist is that peculiarly human phenomenon distilled to a rare potency---half tiger,half poet. Yehudi Menuhin More Quotes by Yehudi Menuhin More Quotes From Yehudi Menuhin Music is a therapy.It is a communication far more powerful than words, far more immediate, far more efficient. Yehudi Menuhin music-is communication powerful Peace may sound simple - one beautiful word - but it requires everything we have, every quality, every strength, every dream, every high ideal. Yehudi Menuhin strength dream beautiful If I wanted to play the violin, I had to work. Because anything that one wants to do really, and one loves doing, one must do everyday. It should be as easy to the artist and as natural as flying is to a bird. And you can’t imagine a bird saying well, I’m tired today, I’m not going to fly! Yehudi Menuhin tired artist play Each human being has the eternal duty of turning what is hard and brutal into Yehudi Menuhin ignorance dream children Music lives and breathes to tell us who we are and what we face. It is a path between ourselves and the infinite. Yehudi Menuhin music path faces Music creates order out of chaos: for rhythm imposes unanimity upon the divergent, melody imposes continuity upon the disjointed, and harmony imposes compatibility upon the incongruous. Yehudi Menuhin divergent music order To be an outstanding musician, you have to be very attentive to the smallest detail and willing to have infinite patience in the pursuit of your ideal. You require absolute control and professionalism. Yehudi Menuhin professionalism details musician The ultimate aim in life should be to fulfill to the utmost all that within our ability and to share that which is good and beautiful. Yehudi Menuhin should share beautiful The practice of yoga induces a primary sense of measure and proportion. Reduced to our own body, our first instrument, we learn to play it, drawing from it maximum resonance and harmony. Yehudi Menuhin drawing yoga play Why is compassion not part of our established curriculum, an inherent part of our education? Compassion, awe, wonder, curiosity, exaltation, humility - these are the very foundation of any real civilization, no longer the prerogatives, the preserves of any one church, but belonging to everyone, every child in every home, in every school. Yehudi Menuhin kindness education children I can only think of music as something inherent in every human being - a birthright. Music coordinates mind, body and spirit. Yehudi Menuhin body mind thinking Life is not a finished product, it is only what we make of it, and if we make nothing of it, someone else will, and we will be his slave. Yehudi Menuhin slave products life-is To play great music, you must keep your eyes on a distant star. Yehudi Menuhin music stars eye Improvisation is not the expression of accident but rather of the accumulated yearnings, dreams and wisdom of our very soul. Yehudi Menuhin soul expression dream In all teaching there must be a fusion of authority as an adult providing a stable framework for the children in one's care, and humility as another human being ready to educate an equal who may turn out to be a superior. Yehudi Menuhin humility teaching children It is music that welds spiritual and sensual, that can convey ecstasy free of guilt, faith without dogma, love as homage, and a person at home with nature and the infinite. Yehudi Menuhin musical spiritual home We are full of rhythms . . . our pulse, our gestures, our digestive tracts, the lunar and seasonal cycles. Yehudi Menuhin gestures applause pulse We are living in a world where the individual must learn to command the raw materials of expression. He must not be dependent all the time on the ready-made, the finished product. It's the transferring, the changing of the raw into what is the expression of your own self – the whole joy and satisfaction and frustration of life is built into this. Yehudi Menuhin frustration expression self In reality, infinity is merely the distance to the heart of a stranger. Eternity is the moment of cognition. Yehudi Menuhin distance heart reality A society without its dreamers can never be free. Yehudi Menuhin dreamer
