More Quotes by Yo-Yo Ma
In performance, we have a greater purpose. The greater purpose is that we're communing together, and we want this moment to be really special for all of us. Because otherwise, why bother to have come at all? It's not about proving anything. It's about sharing something.
But an innovation, to grow organically from within, has to be based on an intact tradition, so our idea is to bring together musicians who represent all these traditions, in workshops, festivals, and concerts, to see how we can connect with each other in music.
When we enlarge our view of the world, we deepen our understanding of our own lives.
When your heart and your mind are engaged, you cannot go wrong.
I have yet to find something that beats the power of being in love, or the power of music at its most magical.
As you begin to realize that every different type of music, everybody's individual music, has its own rhythm, life, language and heritage, you realize how life changes, and you learn how to be more open and adaptive to what is around us.
Nobody else can make the sound you make.
Music is one of the ways we can achieve a kind of shorthand to understand each other.
When we have a good balance between thinking and feeling... our actions and lives are always the richer for it.
The worst thing you can do is say to yourself, "I want to be just like somebody else." You have to absorb knowledge from someone else, but ultimately you have to find your own voice.
