More Quotes by Yo-Yo Ma
Classical music is one of the best things that ever happened to mankind. If you get introduced to it in the right way, it becomes your friend for life.
When your heart and your mind are engaged, you cannot go wrong.
Bach takes you to a very quiet place within yourself, to the inner core, a place where you are calm and at peace.
I think one of the great things about being a musician is that you never stop learning.
Each day I move toward that which I do not understand. The result is a continuous accidental learning which constantly shapes my life.
Our cultural strength has always been derived from our diversity of understanding and experience.
Good things happen when you meet strangers.
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.
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.
I have yet to find something that beats the power of being in love, or the power of music at its most magical.
