"To play great music, you must keep your……" — Yehudi Menuhin

"To play great music, you must keep your eyes on a distant star."

— Yehudi Menuhin

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25 Quotes by Yehudi Menuhin

Yehudi Menuhin has 25 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

...Why is compassion not part of our established curriculum, an inherent part of our education? Compassion, awe, wonder, curiosity, exaltation,…
Peace may sound simple - one beautiful word - but it requires everything we have, every quality, every strength, every…
Music lives and breathes to tell us who we are and what we face. It is a path between ourselves…
It is music that welds spiritual and sensual, that can convey ecstasy free of guilt, faith without dogma, love as…
Homeopathy is the safest and more reliable approach to ailments and has withstood the assaults of established medical practice for…
I would hate to think I am not an amature. An amateur is one who loves what he is doing.…
The violinist is that peculiarly human phenomenon distilled to a rare potency---half tiger,half poet.
The art of creation lies in the gift of perceiving the particular and generalizing it, thus creating the particular again.…
We embark unhesitatingly on the path, in a direction that is absolutely right and urgent, supported by everyone, in the…
The violinist must possess the poets gift of piercing the protective hide which grows on propagandists, stockbrokers and slave traders,…
The practice of yoga induces a primary sense of measure and proportion. Reduced to our own body, our first instrument,…
Music is a therapy.It is a communication far more powerful than words, far more immediate, far more efficient.

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More Distant Quotes

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Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic. — Wystan Hugh Auden
The current global landscape is quite different from the not-too-distant past. The process of globalization has intensified, and the world… — Michelle Bachelet
Youth is the spirit of adventure and awakening. It is a time of physical emerging when the body attains the… — Ezra Taft Benson
Paramount among the responsibilities of a free press is the duty to prevent any part of the government from deceiving… — Hugo Black
If Beethoven and Bach hooked up with Mozart and made a band, they could be a distant runner up to… — Jack Black
October is the fallen leaf, but it is also a wider horizon more clearly seen. It is the distant hills… — Hal Borland
There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste; there are no honors… — Jean de la Bruyere
The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are. — John Burroughs
As long as your body is healthy and under control and death is distant, try to save your soul; when… — Chanakya
God be thanked for books; they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of… — William Ellery Channing
One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
A distant enemy is always preferable to one at the gate. — Emile M. Cioran

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