"Music is powered by ideas. If you don't……" — Yo-Yo Ma
"Music is powered by ideas. If you don't have clarity of ideas, you're just communicating sheer sound."
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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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Revenge only engenders violence, not clarity and true peace. I think liberation must come from within.
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Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.
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Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.
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I must stress here the point that I appreciate clarity, order, meaning, structure, rationality: they are necessary to whatever provisional…
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What most of us need, almost more than anything, is the courage and humility really to ask for help, from…
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The only chance for victory over the brainwash is the right of every man to have his ideas judged one…
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I like ruins because what remains is not the total design, but the clarity of thought, the naked structure, the…
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