All Yo-Yo Ma Quotes
- A Senegalese poet said 'In the end we will conserve only what we love. We love only what we understand, and we will understand only… Common
- Music has always been transnational; Been
- When we enlarge our view of the world, we deepen our understanding of our own lives. Deepen
- When people ask me how they should approach performance, I always tell them the professional musician should aspire to the state of the beginner. Always Tell
- Classical music is one of the best things that ever happened to mankind. If you get introduced to it in the right way, it becomes… Becomes
- Music enhances the education of our children by helping them to make connections and broadening the depth with which they think and feel. If we… Broadening
- Sharing is a much better way to communicate than proving. Better
- You must have a reason to be in the places to which you go, and you must do only things that you really care about. Care
- Bach takes you to a very quiet place within yourself, to the inner core, a place where you are calm and at peace. Bach
- Music is one of the ways we can achieve a kind of shorthand to understand each other. Achieve
- We may be coming to a new golden age of instrument making. Age
- My teacher, my great cello teacher Leonard Rose, was such a great cellist, and nurturing man, very patient. But I grew up not only admiring… Admiring
- The thing that I've always been slightly frustrated with, was that the idea of a CD is kind of confined to a material possession that… Been
- Perfection is not very communicative Communicative
- This middle age thing is a little weird. Some friends and mentors are gone, and there's a very forward-looking new generation coming up behind me.… Age
- I want to investigate different cultures, to see how their identities and values affect their music. It's one way I can get to know our… Affect
- I don't always have a five-year plan. One thing you must do in life is keep your learning curve as high as possible. Curve
- Each day I move toward that which I do not understand. The result is a continuous accidental learning which constantly shapes my life. Accidental
- Things can fall apart, or threaten to, for many reasons, and then there's got to be a leap of faith. Ultimately, when you're at the… Apart
- Good things happen when you meet strangers. Good
- As you begin to realize that every different type of music, everybody's individual music, has its own rhythm, life, language and heritage, you realize how… Adaptive
- I learn something not because I have to, but because I really want to. That's the same view I have for performing. I'm performing because… Back Home
- The role of the musician is to go from concept to full execution. Put another way, it's to go from understanding the content of something… Another Way
- After reaching 50, I began to wonder what the root of life is. Began
- The tango is really a combination of many cultures, though it eventually became the national music of Argentina. Argentina