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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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