Yehudi Menuhin Quotes

Mozart was very much an arrested adolescent.

When I look at the majority of my own songs they really came from my own sense of personal confusion or need to express some pain or beauty - they were coming from a universal and personal place.

Mozart makes us care about people in flashes of lightning.

There was a whole language that I could never make function for myself in relationship to painting and that was attitudes like tortured, struggle, pain.

My life has always somehow been played out in a minor key, unresolved. Art somehow resolves things for me.

To me, Mozart is our Shakespeare, the one who wrote the most dramatic, psychologically most baffling music. He combined ideas that no one else would have thought of putting together.

Mozart would play a counterpart with his left hand while using his right to mock it. It was blue, dark, shadowy - and it made me feel something. That's when I realized music was inside me.

If they had Mozart today, they couldn't work with him, although he was a very adaptable man.

All the conductor has to do is stand back and try not to get in the way. Mozart is doing all the work.

In Mozart and Salieri we see the contrast between the genius which does what it must and the talent which does what it can.

It's not necessarily bad that you have angst or you have anger - it's what you do with it, how you interpret it into something profoundly moving.

I think Mozart, with all his impatience in writing, would have loved it. It would have allowed him to write twice as much. He would have loved a Mac. If he'd had a laptop, he would have been unstoppable.

There's a kind of passionate expression in all my pieces. It's just that the nature of the expression takes different forms.

If we cannot write with the beauty of Mozart, let us at least try to write with his purity.

I would like to manage to prevent people from ever seeing how a picture of mine has been done. What can it possibly matter? What I want is that the only thing emanating from my pictures should be emotion.

And I am the kind of person that feels so much that if I didn’t have acting (and music), I would burst from all of the emotion inside!

Art never comes from happiness.

To love is to transform; to be a poet.

There's always been anger in the making of music or literature or dance.

Mozart has the classic purity of light and the blue ocean; Beethoven the romantic grandeur which belongs to the storms of air and sea, and while the soul of Mozart seems to dwell on the ethereal peaks of Olympus, that of Beethoven climbs shuddering the storm-beaten sides of a Sinai. Blessed be they both! Each represents a moment of the ideal life, each does us good. Our love is due to both.

Rage is to writers what water is to fish.

What I love about doing musical work is that it heightens the emotion.

I think Mozart, like you, is an example of someone who has the gods moving through him, and his religion was creation.

Every lover is, in his heart, a madman, and, in his head, a minstrel.

Mozart's music always sounds unburdened, effortless, and light. This is why it unburdens, releases, and liberates us.