Poetry Quotes by Yehudi Menuhin

3 Poetry quotes by Yehudi Menuhin

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The violinist must possess the poet's gift of piercing the protective hide which grows on propagandists, stockbrokers and slave traders, to penetrate…

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The violinist is that peculiarly human phenomenon distilled to a rare potency---half tiger,half poet.

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The violinist must possess the poets gift of piercing the protective hide which grows on propagandists, stockbrokers and slave traders, to penetrate…

Yehudi Menuhin

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We embark unhesitatingly on the path, in a direction that is absolutely right and urgent, supported by everyone, in the knowledge that this path is but a learning process... We have to keep on learning, creating, applying, by-passing, touching upon, refining and clarifying a number of notions and details that need to be improvised and applied and which, thank God,…

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It is music that welds spiritual and sensual, that can convey ecstasy free of guilt, faith without dogma, love as homage, and a person…

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Improvisation is the expression of the accumulated yearnings, dreams, and wisdom of the soul.

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A way of life which excludes the realm of the unknown and the mysterious is simply not in harmony with life itself.

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It is perhaps life's greatest accomplishment to live to old age, maintaining one's wits, one's sense of humor, one's health, and one's charm.

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It is a technique ideally suited to prevent physical and mental illness and to protect the body generally, developing an inevitable sense of self-reliance…

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