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Something Quotes by Yo-Yo Ma
- 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…
- 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…
- When you learn something from people, or from a culture, you accept it as a gift, and it is your lifelong commitment to preserve it…
- One is that you have to take time, lots of time, to let an idea grow from within. The second is that when you sign…
- Once something is memorable, it's living and you're using it. That to me is the foundation of a creative society.
- Passion is one great force that unleashes creativity, because if you're passionate about something, then you're more willing to take risks.
- As a child, you respond physically, tactically. You're delighted by sound, you're delighted by recognizing something. It's like hide and seek. Is it there? Is…
- I think of a piece of music as something that comes alive when it is being performed, and I feel that my role in the…
- I think there are so many ways to become interested in music. I believe signs of sustained interest gives a sense of the right time.…
- 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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