"I think the purpose of a piece of……" — Yo-Yo Ma
"I think the purpose of a piece of music is significant when it actually lives in somebody else. A composer puts down a code, and a performer can activate the code in somebody else. Once it lives in somebody else, it can live in others as well."
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69 Quotes by Yo-Yo Ma
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A Senegalese poet said 'In the end we will conserve only what we love. We love only what we understand,…
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Music has always been transnational;
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When we enlarge our view of the world, we deepen our understanding of our own lives.
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When people ask me how they should approach performance, I always tell them the professional musician should aspire to the…
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Classical music is one of the best things that ever happened to mankind. If you get introduced to it in…
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Music enhances the education of our children by helping them to make connections and broadening the depth with which they…
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Sharing is a much better way to communicate than proving.
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You must have a reason to be in the places to which you go, and you must do only things…
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Bach takes you to a very quiet place within yourself, to the inner core, a place where you are calm…
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Music is one of the ways we can achieve a kind of shorthand to understand each other.
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We may be coming to a new golden age of instrument making.
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My teacher, my great cello teacher Leonard Rose, was such a great cellist, and nurturing man, very patient. But I…
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Progress celebrates victories over nature. Progress makes purses out of human skin. When people were traveling in mail coaches, the…
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Activate your fans, don’t just collect them like baseball cards.
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The mainspring of creativity appears to be the same tendency which we discover so deeply as the curative force in…
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With liquid zeolite, we have returned to the basic healing approach for all chronic diseases, which is to free up…
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So, the path of the co-creator is to be awakened spiritually within, which then turns into your own deeper life…
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