Music creates order out of chaos: for rhythm imposes unanimity upon the divergent, melody imposes continuity upon the disjointed, and harmony imposes compatibility upon the incongruous.
Yehudi MenuhinRead
I can only think of music as something inherent in every human being - a birthright. Music coordinates mind, body and spirit.
Interpretation
Music is an inherent part of being human, essential for harmony within oneself.
Yehudi Menuhin emphasizes the fundamental role of music in human existence, suggesting that it is a universal birthright that connects our mind, body, and spirit. This idea reflects the profound impact music has on our emotional and spiritual well-being, as well as its ability to unify various aspects of our being.
In practice
In a speech about the arts, one might quote this to highlight the essential role of music in education.
Music creates order out of chaos: for rhythm imposes unanimity upon the divergent, melody imposes continuity upon the disjointed, and harmony imposes compatibility upon the incongruous.
Music lives and breathes to tell us who we are and what we face. It is a path between ourselves and the infinite.
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 from it maximum resonance and harmony.
Improvisation is not the expression of accident but rather of the accumulated yearnings, dreams and wisdom of our very soul.
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 β the whole joy and satisfaction and frustration of life is built into this.
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.
I wanted to keep exploring... I'm not about to choose a series of movies in which I can use the same bag of tricks and style that I used in the first film.
The really magical things are the ones that happen right in front of you. A lot of the time you keep looking for beauty, but it is already there. And if you look with a bit more intention, you see it.
The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something and tell what it saw in a plain way. Hundreds of people can talk for one who can think, but thousands can think for one who can see. To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion, all in one.
I enjoy the challenge of trying to say things beautifully. The message is secondary in that sense. Obviously, I have something that I want to say that's very, very important to me - but the process of actually crafting it is essential.
The science of design, or of line-drawing, if you like to use this term, is the source and very essence of painting, sculpture, architecture... Sometimes... it seems to me that... all the works of the human brain and hand are either design itself or a branch of that art.
If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.
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