Quotes from Yehudi Menuhin

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

Music lives and breathes to tell us who we are and what we face. It is a path between ourselves and the infinite.

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

Music creates order out of chaos.

A society without its dreamers can never be free.

Life is not a finished product, it is only what we make of it, and if we make nothing of it, someone else will, and we will be his slave.

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.

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

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.

A way of life which excludes the realm of the unknown and the mysterious is simply not in harmony with life itself.

Our life must have an aim, but we must also ensure that the direction we take is a good one.

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

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

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.

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

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.

Improvisation is not the expression of accident but rather of the accumulated yearnings, dreams and wisdom of our very soul.

Homeopathy is one of the few medical specialties which carries no penalties -- only benefits.

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 creates order out of chaos; for rythem imposes unianimity upon the divergent, melody imposes contuniuty upon the disjointed, and harmony imposes compatibility upon the incongruous.

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

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 civilization.

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

Do we not find freedom along the guiding lines of discipline?