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Yo-Yo Ma Quotes
Yo-Yo Ma Quotes
Yo-Yo Ma
American
Musician
Born:
Oct 7
,
1955
Great
Me
Music
People
Think
You
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With every year of playing, you want to relax one more muscle. Why? Because the more tense you are, the less you can hear.
Yo-Yo Ma
You
Relax
Year
Every
More
Tense
Because
Hear
Want
Less
Why
Muscle
Playing
My job as a performer is to make sure that whatever happens in a performance lives in somebody else, that it's memorable... If you forget tomorrow what you heard yesterday, there's really not much point in you having been there - or me, for that matter.
Yo-Yo Ma
Me
You
Matter
Tomorrow
Job
Somebody
Yesterday
Whatever
Else
Memorable
Having
Point
Performance
Performer
Make
Sure
Been
Heard
Forget
Happens
Much
Really
Lives
After reaching 50, I began to wonder what the root of life is.
Yo-Yo Ma
Life
Reaching
Began
Wonder
After
Root
I think of a piece of music as something that comes alive when it is being performed, and I feel that my role in the transmission of music is to be its best advocate at that moment.
Yo-Yo Ma
Music
Best
Think
Alive
Something
Feel
Performed
Piece
Advocate
Role
Being
Transmission
Moment
Jazz has been such a force in music, that any musician, including classical composers, have been influenced, and obviously performers, also.
Yo-Yo Ma
Music
Jazz
Musician
Has-Been
Composers
Classical
Classical Composers
Performers
Also
Obviously
Force
Been
Any
Influenced
Including
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