Yo-Yo Ma Quotes

I think one of the great things about being a musician is that you never stop learning.

My teacher, my great cello teacher Leonard Rose, was such a great cellist, and nurturing man, very p...

I think all musicians have at one time or another experienced one physical problem or another. I hav...

Mastering music is more than learning technical skills. Practicing is about quality, not quantity. S...

Passion is one great force that unleashes creativity, because if you're passionate about something, ...

The thing that I've always been slightly frustrated with, was that the idea of a CD is kind of confi...

Good things happen when you meet strangers.

Things can fall apart, or threaten to, for many reasons, and then there's got to be a leap of faith....

As you begin to realize that every different type of music, everybody's individual music, has its ow...

I love grocery shopping when I'm home. That's what makes me feel totally normal. I love both the ide...

I think that peace is, in many ways, a precondition of joy.

The tango is really a combination of many cultures, though it eventually became the national music o...

The role of the musician is to go from concept to full execution. Put another way, it's to go from u...

I think of a piece of music as something that comes alive when it is being performed, and I feel tha...

I think anybody who goes away finds you appreciate home more when you return.

I think there are so many ways to become interested in music. I believe signs of sustained interest ...

Music has always been transnational; people pick up whatever interests them, and certainly a lot of ...

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