Yo Yo Ma Quotes: top 37 famous quotes about Yo Yo Ma

Yo Yo Ma Quotes & Sayings

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After reaching 50, I began to wonder what the root of life is. — Yo-Yo Ma

Jazz has been such a force in music, that any musician, including classical composers, have been influenced, and obviously performers, also. — Yo-Yo Ma

I remember when I was growing up. My great wish was to understand who I was and how I fit in the world. — Yo-Yo Ma

As a musician I'm kind of nomadic, Waldo-like. I show up in different places, and I'm witness to unbelievable things. — Yo-Yo Ma

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. — Yo-Yo Ma

Culture opens our hearts to one another. And the currency in culture is not money, but trust. — Yo-Yo Ma

Music is one of the ways we can achieve a kind of shorthand to understand each other. — Yo-Yo Ma

We may be coming to a new golden age of instrument making. — Yo-Yo Ma

One of the things I love about music is live performance. — Yo-Yo Ma

Good things happen when you meet strangers. — Yo-Yo Ma

Yo Taylor, I'm really happy for you. I'ma let you finish. But Beyonce had one of the best videos of all time! — Kanye West

I think anybody who goes away finds you appreciate home more when you return. — Yo-Yo Ma

Perfection is not very communicative — Yo-Yo Ma

I have yet to find something that beats the power of being in love, or the power of music at its most magical. — Yo-Yo Ma

Sharing is a much better way to communicate than proving. — Yo-Yo Ma

People will ask, 'Are you famous?' And I always answer, 'My mother thinks so.' — Yo-Yo Ma

Nobody else can make the sound you make. — Yo-Yo Ma

The tango is really a combination of many cultures, though it eventually became the national music of Argentina. — Yo-Yo Ma

Yo-Yo Ma and Bobby McFerrin together again for the first time. — Ellen Kushner

Our cultural strength has always been derived from our diversity of understanding and experience. — Yo-Yo Ma

When your heart and your mind are engaged, you cannot go wrong. — Yo-Yo Ma

Once something is memorable, it's living and you're using it. That to me is the foundation of a creative society. — Yo-Yo Ma

When we enlarge our view of the world, we deepen our understanding of our own lives. — Yo-Yo Ma

There's a part of me that's always charging ahead. I'm the curious kid, always going to the edge. — Yo-Yo Ma

Passion is one great force that unleashes creativity, because if you're passionate about something, then you're more willing to take risks. — Yo-Yo Ma

I think that peace is, in many ways, a precondition of joy. — Yo-Yo Ma

With every year of playing, you want to relax one more muscle. Why? Because the more tense you are, the less you can hear. — Yo-Yo Ma

I realized late in life that my twin passions are music and people. — Yo-Yo Ma

When we have a good balance between thinking and feeling ... our actions and lives are always the richer for it. — Yo-Yo Ma

Each day I move toward that which I do not understand. The result is a continuous accidental learning which constantly shapes my life. — Yo-Yo Ma

You go through phases. You have to reinvent reasons for playing, and one year's answer might not do for another. — Yo-Yo Ma

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 and build on it. — Yo-Yo Ma

Bach takes you to a very quiet place within yourself, to the inner core, a place where you are calm and at peace. — 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. — Yo-Yo Ma

Music is powered by ideas. If you don't have clarity of ideas, you're just communicating sheer sound. — Yo-Yo Ma

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. — Yo-Yo Ma

My involvement in the political arena is to make sure there's a place for culture. — Yo-Yo Ma