Yehudi Menuhin
Yehudi Menuhin
Yehudi Menuhin, Baron Menuhin OM KBEwas an American-born violinist and conductor, who spent most of his performing career in Britain. He is widely considered one of the greatest violinists of the 20th century...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionViolinist
Date of Birth22 April 1916
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
discipline lines
Do we not find freedom along the guiding lines of discipline?
enabling levels emotion
Mozart resolved his emotions on a level that transformed them into moods uncontaminated by mortal anguish, enabling him to express the angelic anguish that is so peculiarly his own.
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There are three levels of service. The highest level is that of one who performs good deeds the whole day and yet feels that he has not acheived anything. The second level is someone who, though he has not done anything, knows that he has not corrected anything in this world. This is good, and there is hope for him that he might correct his ways. However, someone who is righteous in his own eyes deceived himself all his life; his good deeds will be lost.
hate thinking
I would hate to think I am not an amature. An amateur is one who loves what he is doing. Very often, I'm afraid, the professional hates what he is doing. So, I'd rather be an amateur.
art powerful lying
The art of creation lies in the gift of perceiving the particular and generalizing it, thus creating the particular again. It is therefore a powerful transforming force and a generator of creative solutions in relation to a given problem. It is the currency of human exchanges, which enables the sharing of states of the soul and conscience, and the discovery of new fields of experience.
music order continuity-of-life
Music creates order out of chaos.
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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, we cannot foresee. The only rigidity lies in our will, our conviction that we are on the right road and that our initiatives are most pressing.
men thinking offering
I still look to music to heal and bind; I still think the musician can be a trusted object offering his fellow-man solace but also a reminder of human excellence.
music stars eye
To play great music, you must keep your eyes on a distant star.
creative quality way
Everyone should in some way be creative, irrespective of the quality of that which he creates.
There are no rules in the service of God, and this itself is no rule.
frustration self expression
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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Homeopathy is the safest and more reliable approach to ailments and has withstood the assaults of established medical practice for over 100 years
dream expression soul
Improvisation is the expression of the accumulated yearnings, dreams, and wisdom of the soul.