Yo-Yo Ma Quotes - Page 3

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• 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.

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  Children, Games, Sound

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• The tradition of classical music and the opera is such that it used to be the place where social intercourse could take place between all parts of society: politicians, industrialists, artists, citizens, etc. That tradition, I think, still exists, but it's much, much more diluted.

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  Artist, Thinking, Citizens

  Interview with Elijah Ho, www.thecounterpoints.com. January 7, 2013.

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• Music has always been transnational.

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  Creativity

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• 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.

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  Effort, Trying, Sound

  "Cellist Yo Yo Ma: His career and music". CNN Chat Room, www.cnn.com. March 15, 2001.

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• 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.

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  Home, Thinking, Shopping

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• I really would like to be involved in things and to understand things, and in some ways you've got to be careful what you wish for because I feel very, very blessed to have such an interesting life and to be able to have little snapshots of lives of people from many different parts of the world.

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  Blessed, Interesting, People

  "Every day is a holiday for Yo-Yo Ma". Interview with Shanon Cook, www.cnn.com. November 12, 2008.

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• The tango is really a combination of many cultures, though it eventually became the national music of Argentina.

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  Argentina, Culture, Combination

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• Jazz has been such a force in music, that any musician, including classical composers, have been influenced, and obviously performers, also.

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  Musician, Jazz, Force

  "Cellist Yo Yo Ma: His career and music". www.cnn.com. March 15, 2001.

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• 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.

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  Thinking, People, Age

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• 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.

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  Garden, Community, Doe

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• I've been traveling all over the world for 25 years, performing, talking to people, studying their cultures and musical instruments, and I always come away with more questions in my head than can be answered.

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  Talking, Years, People

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• 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.

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  Communication, Cds, Ideas

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• 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.

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  Mentor, Age, Generations

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• 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.

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  Teacher, Men, Rose

  "Cellist Yo Yo Ma: His career and music". Live chat, www.cnn.com. March 15, 2001.

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• I think anybody who goes away finds you appreciate home more when you return.

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  Home, Thinking, Appreciate

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• I realized late in life that my twin passions are music and people.

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  Passion, People, Twins

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• After reaching 50, I began to wonder what the root of life is.

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  Roots, Wonder, Life Is

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• 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.

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  Chinese, Different, Speak

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• As a musician I'm kind of nomadic, Waldo-like. I show up in different places, and I'm witness to unbelievable things.

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  Musician, Different, Unbelievable Things

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• 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.

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  Years, Two, People

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• We may be coming to a new golden age of instrument making.

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  Age, May, Golden

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