"The violinist is that peculiarly human phenomenon distilled……" — Yehudi Menuhin
"The violinist is that peculiarly human phenomenon distilled to a rare potency---half tiger,half poet."
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25 Quotes by Yehudi Menuhin
Yehudi Menuhin has 25 quotes on this site.
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...Why is compassion not part of our established curriculum, an inherent part of our education? Compassion, awe, wonder, curiosity, exaltation,…
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Peace may sound simple - one beautiful word - but it requires everything we have, every quality, every strength, every…
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Music lives and breathes to tell us who we are and what we face. It is a path between ourselves…
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It is music that welds spiritual and sensual, that can convey ecstasy free of guilt, faith without dogma, love as…
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Homeopathy is the safest and more reliable approach to ailments and has withstood the assaults of established medical practice for…
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I would hate to think I am not an amature. An amateur is one who loves what he is doing.…
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The art of creation lies in the gift of perceiving the particular and generalizing it, thus creating the particular again.…
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We embark unhesitatingly on the path, in a direction that is absolutely right and urgent, supported by everyone, in the…
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The violinist must possess the poets gift of piercing the protective hide which grows on propagandists, stockbrokers and slave traders,…
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The practice of yoga induces a primary sense of measure and proportion. Reduced to our own body, our first instrument,…
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Music is a therapy.It is a communication far more powerful than words, far more immediate, far more efficient.
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We are living in a world where the individual must learn to command the raw materials of expression. He must…
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More Distilled Quotes
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one of 73 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Poetry is life distilled.
— Gwendolyn Brooks
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A good story cannot be devised; it has to be distilled.
— Raymond Chandler
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A great state is a well-blended mash of something of all the people and all of none of the people.…
— Zora Neale Hurston
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The internal processes of muscle growth are seriously complicated, people devote their lives to it, but the external processes that…
— Unknown Author
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Alcohol is necessary for a man so that he can have a good opinion of himself, undisturbed be the facts.…
— Ovid
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But loss is a precious stone to me, a nectar Distilled in time, preaching the truth of winter To the…
— James K. Baxter
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My veins are filled, once a week with a Neapolitan carpet cleaner distilled from the Adriatic and I am as…
— John Cheever
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Wine has a drastic, an astringent taste. I cannot help wincing as I drink. Ascent of flowers, radiance and heat,…
— Virginia Woolf
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Hatred is a form of faith, distilled by passion to remove all rationality.
— L.E. Modesitt Jr.
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Hurray, Hallelujah, and Happy Prostate! Finally, someone has taken the years and done the work, so the rest of us…
— Dirk Benedict
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A play is fiction and fiction is fact distilled into truth.
— Edward Albee
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If Christ's message could be distilled down to one line, that line would have to do with kindness and inclusiveness,…
— Roland Merullo
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