Quotes by : Yo-Yo Ma

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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