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Yo-Yo Ma
Yo-Yo Ma
American Musician
Born: Oct 7, 1955
Great Me Music People Think You
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Passion is one great force that unleashes creativity, because if you're passionate about something, then you're more willing to take risks. Yo-Yo Ma
Great You Risks Creativity Passion Willing About Something More Take Force Because Passionate Then
When you learn something from people, or from a culture, you accept it as a gift, and it is your lifelong commitment to preserve it and build on it. Yo-Yo Ma
You Culture Commitment People Gift Build Something Lifelong Learn Accept Your Preserve
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. Yo-Yo Ma
Life Music You Language Own Every Heritage Adaptive Changes Everybody Type Life Changes More Individual Open Learn Around How Begin Different Rhythm Realize Us Different Type
I love grocery shopping when I'm home. That's what makes me feel totally normal. I love both the idea of home as in being with my family and friends, and also the idea of exploration. I think those two are probably my great interests. Yo-Yo Ma
Love Home Great Family Me Shopping Think Those Totally Both Idea Feel Also Makes Normal Friends Family And Friends Being Grocery Interests Grocery Shopping Exploration Two
I learn something not because I have to, but because I really want to. That's the same view I have for performing. I'm performing because I really want to, not because I have to bring bread back home. Yo-Yo Ma
Home Back Something Performing Learn Because Same Want Bread Really View Bring
Things can fall apart, or threaten to, for many reasons, and then there's got to be a leap of faith. Ultimately, when you're at the edge, you have to go forward or backward; if you go forward, you have to jump together. Yo-Yo Ma
Faith You Together Edge Fall Backward Threaten Leap Leap Of Faith Got Go Ultimately Jump Apart Then Forward Reasons Many Things
People will ask, 'Are you famous?' And I always answer, 'My mother thinks so.' Yo-Yo Ma
You People Mother Will Answer Always Famous Ask Thinks
One of the things I love about music is live performance. Yo-Yo Ma
Love Music Live One Of The Things About Performance Live Performance Things
A composition is always more than the sum of its parts. In other words, a really good piece of music is more than itself. It's sort of like a prism, which you can see from each facet a single totality. Yo-Yo Ma
Music Good You Words Single Other Sum See Composition Totality Facet More Like Piece Sort Parts Always Prism Itself Than In Other Words Which Really Each
I think one of the great things about being a musician is that you never stop learning. Yo-Yo Ma
Great You Learning Great Things Think Musician About Never Never Stop Stop Being Things
I think that peace is, in many ways, a precondition of joy. Yo-Yo Ma
Peace Joy Think Ways Many
What came up at age 49 is I realized that of all the things I'm interested in, the thing I'm most interested in is figuring out what makes people tick, why people think the way they do, why they act the way they do. And I realized that music is such a great way to investigate why people do what they do. Yo-Yo Ma
Music Great Age People Think Way Out Investigate Tick Most Great Way Makes Came Up Interested Realized Act Figuring Why Thing Things
I'm not likely to forget where I've been and what I've done and learned. I think it's just as important to play new instruments as to play new pieces. The old ones are getting scarcer and the new ones more and more wonderful. Yo-Yo Ma
Wonderful Old Important Think More More And More New Pieces Likely Instruments Learned Been New Ones Forget Done Getting Just Where Old Ones Play
One of the most interesting aspects of the film project was collaborating with so many people - directors, filmmakers, and writers - over a five-year period. I learned that there are two components to this. Yo-Yo Ma
People Project Collaborating Components Directors Writers Over Most Period Learned Five-Year So Many People Interesting Aspects Many Film Two Filmmakers
We may be coming to a new golden age of instrument making. Yo-Yo Ma
Age New Instrument Making Coming May Golden Golden Age
There are limits to how much sound a cello can make. That's part of the framing of acoustical instruments. Finding what those limits might be, and then trying to suggest perhaps even the illusion of going beyond is part of that kind of effort. Yo-Yo Ma
Illusion Framing Those Kind Finding Part Perhaps Beyond Make Instruments How Sound Limits How Much Effort Trying Cello Going Might Then Much Even Suggest
I remember when I was growing up. My great wish was to understand who I was and how I fit in the world. Yo-Yo Ma
Great World Remember Wish Remember When Understand How Fit Up Who Growing Growing Up
My involvement in the political arena is to make sure there's a place for culture. Yo-Yo Ma
Culture Political Arena Involvement Make Sure Political Arena Place
As a musician I'm kind of nomadic, Waldo-like. I show up in different places, and I'm witness to unbelievable things. Yo-Yo Ma
Witness Musician Kind Unbelievable Nomadic Up Different Places Show Different Places Things
It's easy for me to care about Toronto, because Toronto is a community that cares about itself. It represents the world. It talks to itself, and because it does, it figures out that there must be a music garden as part of its existence. Yo-Yo Ma
Music Me Garden World Care Community Cares Out Must Toronto Easy About Part Talks Because Does Existence Itself Represents Figures
As a child, you respond physically, tactically. You're delighted by sound, you're delighted by recognizing something. It's like hide and seek. Is it there? Is it not there? Is it this note? Is it not this note? It's one fantastic game. Yo-Yo Ma
You Game Hide Respond Recognizing Seek Something Tactically Physically Delighted Like Sound Child Note Fantastic
The thing that I've always been slightly frustrated with, was that the idea of a CD is kind of confined to a material possession that you can put on a shelf. And the idea of music, for me, is always about both the communication and the sharing of content. And so the interactive part is missing. Yo-Yo Ma
Music Me You Communication Slightly Possession Kind About Both Part Put Sharing Idea Missing Content Shelf Always Material Been Confined Interactive Frustrated Thing
Practicing is not only playing your instrument, either by yourself or rehearsing with others - it also includes imagining yourself practicing. Your brain forms the same neural connections and muscle memory whether you are imagining the task or actually doing it. Yo-Yo Ma
You Memory Yourself Others Only Neural Also Instrument Practicing Doing Brain Task Same Whether Either Forms Your Connections Rehearsing Actually Muscle Playing Imagining
The tango is really a combination of many cultures, though it eventually became the national music of Argentina. Yo-Yo Ma
Music National Though Argentina Combination Became Tango Cultures Really Many Eventually
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. Yo-Yo Ma
Music Musicians Together Innovation Other Our See Idea Within Concerts How Intact Tradition Traditions Festivals Represent Organically Who Connect Workshops Each Grow Based Bring
Sound is ephemeral, fleeting, but some sort of a physical manifestation can help you hold on to it longer in time. I'm sure of this; I've always thought the sound that you make is just the tip of the iceberg, like the person that you see physically is just the tip of the iceberg as well. Yo-Yo Ma
Time You Thought Physical See Some Physically Longer Like Well Make Sort Sure Always Sound Person Just Tip Tip Of The Iceberg Hold Manifestation Iceberg Ephemeral Fleeting Help
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