"We are living in a world where the……" — Yehudi Menuhin
"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."
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25 Quotes by Yehudi Menuhin
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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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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 violinist is that peculiarly human phenomenon distilled to a rare potency---half tiger,half poet.
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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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