54 Quotes by Yehudi Menuhin

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

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

There are no rules in the service of God, and this itself is no rule.

A society without its dreamers can never be free.

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.

Improvisation is the expression of the accumulated yearnings, dreams, and wisdom of the soul.

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.

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

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.