Yehudi Menuhin Short Quotes

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Learning an imposed method seemed not in my nature

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

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The best teacher is the one who himself has had to struggle to learn.

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

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What fascinated my imagination was the tremendous feat, which I felt I should be perfectly able to accomplish.

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It is absolutely vital to hold [the bow] as lightly as possible — rather as one might pick up a newborn bird.

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Even at the risk of losing all the golden eggs of the future, I had to find out what made the goose lay those eggs

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I imagine that whatever contribution I can make to teaching derives from having had to rethink and re-create my technique.

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I can only think of music as something inherent in every human being - a birthright. Music coordinates mind, body and spirit.

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[At age 7] In eight hours of concentrated practice between my twice-weekly lessons, I memorized the A major and played it for Persinger.

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What guides us is children's response, their joy in learning to dance, to sing, to live together. It should be a guide to the whole world.

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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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Homeopathy is the safest and more reliable approach to ailments and has withstood the assaults of established medical practice for over 100 years.

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Peace may sound simple — one beautiful word — but it requires everything we have, every quality, every strength, every dream, every high ideal.

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To be an outstanding musician, you have to be very attentive to the smallest detail and willing to have infinite patience in the pursuit of your ideal.

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I would hate to think I am not an amateur. 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.

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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 the deeper truth which lies within.

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Music creates order out of chaos: for rhythm imposes unanimity upon the divergent, melody imposes continuity upon the disjointed, and harmony imposes compatibility upon the incongruous.

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