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Musician Quotes by Yo-Yo Ma
- When people ask me how they should approach performance, I always tell them the professional musician should aspire to the state of the beginner.
- 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…
- But an innovation, to grow organically from within, has to be based on an intact tradition, so our idea is to bring together musicians who…
- As a musician I'm kind of nomadic, Waldo-like. I show up in different places, and I'm witness to unbelievable things.
- I think one of the great things about being a musician is that you never stop learning.
- Jazz has been such a force in music, that any musician, including classical composers, have been influenced, and obviously performers, also.
- It took me way beyond what I knew, into places of which I was totally scared, but as I became less frightened, I welcomed new…
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