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

A society without its dreamers can never be free..

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

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 ….

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

We embark unhesitatingly on the path, in a direction that is absolutely right and urgent, supported by everyone, in the knowledge that this path is b….

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

Each human being has the eternal duty of turning what is hard and brutal into a tender and subtle offering, what is crude into an object of refineme….

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..

A dream is unrehearsed..

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 rea….

Why is compassion not part of our established curriculum, an inherent part of our education? Compassion, awe, wonder, curiosity, exaltation, humility….

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 n….

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 f….

Music creates order out of chaos: for rhythm imposes unanimity upon the divergent, melody imposes continuity upon the disjointed, and harmony imposes….

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 ….

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 idea….

In reality, infinity is merely the distance to the heart of a stranger. Eternity is the moment of cognition..

I can only think of music as something inherent in every human being - a birthright. Music coordinates mind, body and spirit..

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

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