List of Yo-Yo Ma Quotes

There's A Part Of Me That's Always Charging Ahead. I'm The Curious Kid, Always Going To The Edge.

We May Be Coming To A New Golden Age Of Instrument Making.

I Think Anybody Who Goes Away Finds You Appreciate Home More When You Return.

I Realized Late In Life That My Twin Passions Are Music And People.

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.

As A Musician I'm Kind Of Nomadic, Waldo-like. I Show Up In Different Places, And I'm Witness To Unbelievable Things.

This Middle Age Thing Is A Little Weird. Some Friends And Mentors Are Gone, And There's A Very Forward-looking New Generation Coming Up Behind Me. So It's Very Much Finding My Own Place.

Children, In A Way, Are Constant Learners. Certainly Sponge-like. Absorbing Everything Without Careful Analysis, Even Though, At The Same Time, They Are Certainly Capable Of Incredible Insights.

Many Of The Central Asians Know Russian, And Ted Levin Speaks It Fluently. I Speak Chinese, But Mongolian Is Completely Different, So We Had To Have Translators.

After Reaching 50, I Began To Wonder What The Root Of Life Is.

My Teacher, My Great Cello Teacher Leonard Rose, Was Such A Great Cellist, And Nurturing Man, Very Patient. But I Grew Up Not Only Admiring Him, But Obviously Casals, Rostrotovich, Jacqueline Du Pre, And Many Others, Including Many Of My Peers And Contemporaries.

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.