Occupation: Violinist Birth: April 22, 1916 Death: March 12, 1999
Music lives and breathes to tell us who we are and what we face. It is a path between ourselves and the infinite..
Peace may sound simple - one beautiful word - but it requires everything we have, every quality, every strength, every dream, every high ideal..
Improvisation is not the expression of accident but rather of the accumulated yearnings, dreams and wisdom of our very soul..
A society without its dreamers can never be free..
I can only think of music as something inherent in every human being - a birthright. Music coordinates mind, body and spirit..
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….
A dream is unrehearsed..
Do we not find freedom along the guiding lines of discipline?.
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….
To play great music, you must keep your eyes on a distant star..
Why is compassion not part of our established curriculum, an inherent part of our education? Compassion, awe, wonder, curiosity, exaltation, humility….
In reality, infinity is merely the distance to the heart of a stranger. Eternity is the moment of cognition..
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 ….
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….
We are full of rhythms . . . our pulse, our gestures, our digestive tracts, the lunar and seasonal cycles..
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….
The violinist is that peculiarly human phenomenon distilled to a rare potency---half tiger,half poet..
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..
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….
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 is a therapy.It is a communication far more powerful than words, far more immediate, far more efficient..