When your heart and your mind are engaged, you cannot go wrong.

- Yo-Yo Ma

Music enhances the education of our children by helping them to make connections and broadening the depth with which they think and feel. If we are t…

- Yo-Yo Ma

Each day I move toward that which I do not understand. The result is a continuous accidental learning which constantly shapes my life.

- Yo-Yo Ma

The worst thing you can do is say to yourself, "I want to be just like somebody else." You have to absorb knowledge from someone else, but ultimately…

- Yo-Yo Ma

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

As you begin to realize that every different type of music, everybody's individual music, has its own rhythm, life, language and heritage, you realiz…

- Yo-Yo Ma

Our cultural strength has always been derived from our diversity of understanding and experience.

- Yo-Yo Ma

When we enlarge our view of the world, we deepen our understanding of our own lives.

- Yo-Yo Ma

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

- Yo-Yo Ma