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
Yehudi Menuhin quotes about
distilled half human phenomenon rare violinist
The violinist is that peculiarly human phenomenon distilled to a rare potency-half tiger, half poet.
yoga practice play
The practice of yoga induces a primary sense of measure and proportion. Reduced to our own body, our first instrument, we learn to play it, drawing from it maximum resonance and harmony.
children teaching humility
In all teaching there must be a fusion of authority as an adult providing a stable framework for the children in one's care, and humility as another human being ready to educate an equal who may turn out to be a superior.
dream children ignorance
Each human being has the eternal duty of turning what is hard and brutal into a tender and subtle offering, what is crude into an object of refinement, what is ugly into a thing of beauty, confrontation into collaboration, ignorance into knowledge, hereby rediscovering the child's dream of a creative reality incessantly renewed by death, the servant of life, and by life the servant of love
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.
children real educational
...Why is compassion not part of our established curriculum, an inherent part of our education? Compassion, awe, wonder, curiosity, exaltation, humility - these are the very foundation of any real civilisation, no longer the prerogatives, the preserves of any one church, but belonging to everyone, every child in every school.
dream expression soul
Improvisation is the expression of the accumulated yearnings, dreams, and wisdom of the soul.
dreamer
A society without its dreamers can never be free.
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.
dream
A dream is unrehearsed.
details musician professionalism
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. You require absolute control and professionalism.
accomplishment age maintaining
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.
half poet potency
The violinist is that peculiarly human phenomenon distilled to a rare potency---half tiger,half poet.