Quotes by : Yo-Yo Ma

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

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

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

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....

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

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

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

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

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