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Yehudi Menuhin Biography

Yehudi Menuhin, Baron Menuhin, OM KBE (22 April 1916 – 12 March 1999) was 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.

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If I wanted to play the violin, I had to work. Because anything that one wants to do really, and one loves doing, one must do everyday. It should be as easy to the artist and as natural as flying is to a bird. And you can’t imagine a bird saying well, I’m tired today, I’m not going to fly!

Artist, Fly, Play, Tired, Violin

The violinist must possess the poets gift of piercing the protective hide which grows on propagandists, stockbrokers and slave traders, to penetrate the deeper truth which lies within.

Lies, Lying, Piercing, Piercings, Protective, Slave

Music creates order out of chaos.

Continuity Of Life, Creates, Music, Order

We are full of rhythms. . . our pulse, our gestures, our digestive tracts, the lunar and seasonal cycles.

Applause, Full, Gestures, Pulse, Rhythms

Music is a therapy. It is a communication far more powerful than words, far more immediate, far more efficient.

Communication, Efficient, Music Is, Powerful, Words

Improvisation is the expression of the accumulated yearnings, dreams, and wisdom of the soul.

Dream, Expression, Soul, Wisdom, Yearnings

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

Distilled, Half, Human, Poet, Potency

Everyone should in some way be creative, irrespective of the quality of that which he creates.

Creates, Creative, Irrespective, Quality, Way

It is music that welds spiritual and sensual, that can convey ecstasy free of guilt, faith without dogma, love as homage, and a person at home with nature and the infinite.

Convey, Home, Music, Musical, Spiritual

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

Beautiful, Dream, Peace, Strength, Word

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.

Amateur, Hate, Hates, Think, Thinking

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.

Play, Practice, Resonance, Yoga

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

Embark, Learning, Path, Process, Right, Urgent

. . . 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.

Children, Education, Inherent, Kindness, Longer, Part

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.

Accomplishment, Age, Humor, Maintaining, Sense

There are no rules in the service of God, and this itself is no rule.

God, Rule, Rules, Service

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

Eye, Eyes, Music, Play, Stars

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

Ailments, Homeopathy, Medical, Practice, Years

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.

Deceived, Done, Eye, Hope, Three, Ways

In reality, infinity is merely the distance to the heart of a stranger. Eternity is the moment of cognition.

Cognition, Distance, Heart, Reality

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