Yehudi Menuhin Music Quotations

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.

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.

Music creates order out of chaos.

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

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.

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

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.

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