Hephzibah Menuhin famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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I never like to play for myself, and that is why I don't own a grand piano. To play for yourself is like looking at yourself in a mirror. I like to practice; that is to work at a task. But to play there must be an audience. New things happen when you play for an audience. You don't know what will occur. You make discoveries with the music, and it is always the first time. It is an exchange, a communion.
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Sometimes, when I play music, I feel as if I am giving life. ... It isn't just notes on the paper anymore: you are recreating the thought, transmitting it. It becomes shareable, but it can never be kept. You go through and at the same time you let go of the experience. That is part of the wonder of music: it can never be kept; it is ephemeral and at the same time enduring.
-- Hephzibah Menuhin -
All of us are displaced. Few people live where their great-grandparents lived or speak the language their great-grandparents spoke.
-- Hephzibah Menuhin
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Humility means that one should not be anxious to have the satisfaction of being honored by others.
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The pattern of a newspaperman's life is like the plot of 'Black Beauty.' Sometimes he finds a kind master who gives him a dry stall and an occasional bran mash in the form of a Christmas bonus, sometimes he falls into the hands of a mean owner who drives him in spite of spavins and expects him to live on potato peelings.
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I am grateful for - though I can't keep up with - the flood of articles, theses, and textbooks that mean to share insight concerning the nature of poetry.
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You can't be without passion. Passion means the possessiveness to be the best.
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We're not going to survive in this world, temporally or spiritually, without increased faith in the Lord-and I don't mean a positive mental attitude-I mean downright solid faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. That is the one thing that gives vitality and power to otherwise rather weak individuals.
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Good actions are a guard against the blows of adversity.
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Our responsibility is not simply shielding those we care for from adversity but preparing them to meet it well.
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Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open.
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A prosperous fool is a grievous burden.
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his burden didn't feel any lighter. but he felt strong enough to carry it
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