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

--

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

Yehudi Menuhin

#Half Quotes #Poet Quotes #Potency Quotes

“What I object to the current government intervention in so-called 'solving the crisis', they haven't solved anything. They've just postponed it.”
“My mum doesn't enjoy sometimes listening to me tell staff off, and I say to my mum, it's a kitchen, not a hair-dressing salon.”
“Even chance meetings are the result of karmaâ€¦ Things in life are fated by our previous lives. That even in the smallest events thereâ€™s no such thing as coincidence.”
“The martial spirit is never dead. It sleeps through fortunate generations, but it wakes up very quickly to the toot of a fife. There's that roistering spirit in men which leads them to think a good fight is a lark - until they've been in one. And the impulse to fight for your own incarnation of an ideal.”

Source : Margaret Ayer Barnes (1933). “Within this Present”
“I have to recognize that I am agnostic.”
“Beauty is in all shapes and sizes”
“Concerning all acts of iniative and creation, there is one elementary truth- that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves, too.”
“You don't know how to handle anything today, because you have to go to jail to get some press or fall down drunk.”

You may also like:

Hephzibah Menuhin
Pianist
Isaac Stern
Violinist
Itzhak Perlman
Violinist
Jascha Heifetz
Violinist
Johann Sebastian Bach
Composer
Ludwig van Beethoven
Composer
Ravi Shankar
Musician
Stephane Grappelli
Jazz Violinist
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Composer