Quotes by : Yo-Yo Ma

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

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

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.

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....

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

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

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

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