I remember when I was growing up. My great wish was to understand who I was and how I fit in the world.
From Yo-Yo Ma
I think that peace is, in many ways, a precondition of joy.
When we have a good balance between thinking and feeling... our actions and lives are always the richer for it.
You know, you can have someone who's the very best at something, but if there's not that kind of chemistry, collaborating is not going to amount to anything.
My involvement in the political arena is to make sure there's a place for culture.
I think one of the great things about being a musician is that you never stop learning.
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.
Once something is memorable, it's living and you're using it. That to me is the foundation of a creative society.
With every year of playing, you want to relax one more muscle. Why? Because the more tense you are, the less you can hear.
People will ask, 'Are you famous?' And I always answer, 'My mother thinks so.'
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