Peace may sound simple — one beautiful word — but it requires everything we have, every quality, every strength, every dream, every high ideal. - Yehudi Menuhin

Despite predisposition in India's favor, I have to acknowledge that Indian music took me by surprise. I knew neither its nature nor its richness, but here, if anywhere, I found vindication of my conviction that India was the original source.

I've had marvelous and incredible luck, and devoted parents, sisters, friends, and teachers. What more can one ask? These things contribute enormously. Probably the major part of one's success is due to these factors.

It is absolutely vital to hold it as lightly as possible - rather as one might pick up a newborn bird.