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Yo-Yo Ma Quotes

American - Musician | October 7, 1955 -

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

Music Cultures Argentina Combination

One of the things I love about music is live performance.

Love Live Music Performance Things

You go through phases. You have to reinvent reasons for playing, and one year's answer might not do for another.

Year You Go Reinvent Answer Playing

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.

Job Tomorrow Me Performance You

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

Home Think Appreciate You More Away

The role of the musician is to go from concept to full execution. Put another way, it's to go from understanding the content of something to really learning how to communicate it and make sure it's well-received and lives in somebody else.

Learning Understanding Go Execution

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

Age New Golden Coming May Making

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

Learning Great Think You Stop Never

I think of a piece of music as something that comes alive when it is being performed, and I feel that my role in the transmission of music is to be its best advocate at that moment.

Music Moment Best Think Feel Alive

When we have a good balance between thinking and feeling... our actions and lives are always the richer for it.

Good Balance Thinking Feeling Always

I think the purpose of a piece of music is significant when it actually lives in somebody else. A composer puts down a code, and a performer can activate the code in somebody else. Once it lives in somebody else, it can live in others as well.

Live Music Purpose Think Down Well

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.

Music Community Me World Care Easy

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