When people ask me how they should approach performance, I always tell them the professional musician should aspire to the state of the beginner.
When your heart and your mind are engaged, you cannot go wrong. - Yo-Yo Ma
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
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…
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
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…
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
Each day I move toward that which I do not understand. The result is a continuous accidental learning which constantly shapes my life.
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
Passion is one great force that unleashes creativity, because if you're passionate about something, then you're more willing to take risks.
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
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…
Our cultural strength has always been derived from our diversity of understanding and experience. - Yo-Yo Ma
Our cultural strength has always been derived from our diversity of understanding and experience.
I think one of the great things about being a musician is that you never stop learning. - Yo-Yo Ma
I think one of the great things about being a musician is that you never stop learning.
When we enlarge our view of the world, we deepen our understanding of our own lives. - Yo-Yo Ma
When we enlarge our view of the world, we deepen our understanding of our own lives.
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