Citas de Yehudi Menuhin

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

  Yehudi Menuhin

  Music, Path, Faces

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

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  Powerful, Communication, Music Is

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• La música pone orden en el caos: el ritmo impone unanimidad a lo divergente, la melodía continuidad a lo inconexo y la armonía compatibilidad a lo incongruente.

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  Music, Order, Divergent

  Yehudi Menuhin (1972). “Theme and Variations”, New York : Stein and Day

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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!

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  Tired, Artist, Play

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• Cada ser humano tiene el eterno deber de convertir lo que es duro y brutal en
  en una ofrenda tierna y sutil, lo burdo en un objeto de refinamiento, lo
  lo feo en bello, la confrontación en colaboración, la ignorancia en conocimiento.
  en conocimiento, redescubriendo así el sueño infantil de una realidad creativa
  incesantemente renovada por la muerte, servidora de la vida, y por la vida, servidora del amor

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  Dream, Children, Ignorance

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• La paz puede parecer simple -una palabra hermosa- pero requiere todo lo que tenemos, cada cualidad, cada fuerza, cada sueño, cada ideal elevado.

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  Strength, Beautiful, Dream

  US Congress Congressional Record, V. 151, PT. 6, April 21, 2005 to May 5, 2005, p. 7471, 2009.

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

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  Music, Stars, Eye

  "The Spirit of Flight". Book by Rene J. Smith, p. 30, January 15, 2012.

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• The ultimate aim in life should be to fulfill to the utmost all that within our ability and to share that which is good and beautiful.

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  Beautiful, Share, Should

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• Sólo puedo pensar en la música como algo inherente a todo ser humano, un derecho de nacimiento. La música coordina mente, cuerpo y espíritu.

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  Thinking, Mind, Body

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• 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.

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  Yoga, Play, Drawing

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• A society without its dreamers can never be free.

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  Soñador

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• 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, no longer the prerogatives, the preserves of any one church, but belonging to everyone, every child in every home, in every school.

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  Education, Children, Kindness

  "Just for Animals" quoted in "Souls Like Ourselves" by Andrea Wiebers and David Wiebers, Rochester, MN: Sojourn Press, (p. 16), 2000.

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• Para ser un músico excepcional, hay que estar muy atento al más mínimo detalle y dispuesto a tener una paciencia infinita en la búsqueda de su ideal. Se requiere un control y una profesionalidad absolutos.

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  Musician, Details, Professionalism

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

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  Dream, Expression, Soul

  "Theme and Variations".

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• 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.

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  Spiritual, Home, Musical

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• 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.

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  Life Is, Slave, Products

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• 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.

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  Children, Teaching, Humility

  Yehudi Menuhin (1977). “Unfinished Journey”, Alfred A. Knopf

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

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  Half, Poet, Potency

  Yehudi Menuhin (1986). “Life class: thoughts, exercises, reflections of an itinerant violinist”, Vintage

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

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  Pulse, Gestures, Applause

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• 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.

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  Frustration, Self, Expression

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• A dream is unrehearsed.

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  Dream (Sueño)

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• 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.

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  Hate, Thinking

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

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  Discipline, Lines

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

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  Creative, Quality, Way

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• Searching and the route we take are more important than making a find.

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  Important, Routes

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