Lord Yehudi Menuhin
(1916-1999)

Violin virtuoso and conductor, humanitarian
Nuclear Age Peace Foundation's Peace Leadership Award

birthdate: April 22
birthplace:
New York, New York

QUOTES

“Each human being has the eternal duty of transforming what is hard and brutal into a subtle and tender offering, what is crude into refinement, what is ugly into beauty, ignorance into knowledge, confrontation into collaboration, thereby rediscovering the child’s dream of a creative reality incessantly renewed by death, the servant of life, and by life the servant of love”.

"I often say I was born old and I get younger with the years."

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”

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

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