To play great music, you must keep your eyes on a distant star.
In plain words
When you're playing your best, keep your dream in sight, even from far away.
Where these words come from
- 50% sureLots of sources credit Yehudi Menuhin with this, and they agree with each other. The book or the speech it first came from hasn't turned up yet.
- Only citation found is The Spirit of Flight (2012), a posthumous compilation (Menuhin died 1999) — fails the posthumous-compilation test for verified; widely and consistently attributed.
- attributed; earliest found printing The Spirit of Flight (2012)
- 1900s (undated remark)
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