Yo-Yo Ma Quotes

It doesn't matter the kind of music, it doesn't matter whether it's a cowboy hat or a yarmulke. I don't care if it's outer space or pop, the spirit is the same.

I've always had a close connection to both rock and classical music.

We all have different musical instincts, and I think they're precious and should be respected.

Where my tastes in music are concerned, I'm a real maximalist.

Music is there for us to explore. To intentionally limit yourself to one, two, or three genres is limitation at its worst. Music is huge; it's a gigantic history lesson, and if you are true music fan or a musician, you should explore it. It's all right there in front of us.

I would never say I will stay in electronic music for the rest of my life. I will always do whatever I feel like at that moment.

I'm not really into gothic music, it's not really my type of scene but each to their own. I listen to pretty much anything.

I've always tried to listen to a lot of different music from around the world.

The greatest thing about music is everyone has their own style, and I respect all styles of music.

What's great about music is it takes so many kinds of people, including me. Everybody is in a different place.

I was always into music. And none of my friends were really into music the same way I was. So it was just different. It was really not very well understood by most of my friends. They didn't tease me about it - they just didn't really relate.

Music is a huge part of my life, I enjoy every genre of music from jazz to country, and I even get down with a bit of hip hop.

Since I was a kid, music has been a huge part of my life. My parents had a pretty solid vinyl collection and exposed me to some amazing artists.

I grew up listening to everything. And rock and roll has always been a big, big part of it - as big a part of what I do as any other type of music.

My voice is a combination of how I grew up and what I was listening to growing up. I like a lot of different kinds of music and am always being inspired in different ways by different artists for different reasons.

I grew up with classical music blasting in my parents' living room and my older brother's practicing saxophone in his room listening to jazz... a beautiful chaos.

I didn't want to go out and change anything. I just wanted to make the music that was part of my background, which was rock and blues and hip-hop.

What is nice about country music today is that most artists are not trying to do something everybody else is doing. They really are trying to develop their own uniqueness.

If you went to see me today, you might not like my music.

I can't imagine a world without music.

Somehow, I see music as a garden which has a lot of different styles: contemporary, classic, ethnic, Japanese, rock & roll, and so on. I can enjoy them all, and there is space for them all.

I'm just inspired by life and, growing up, I listened to all types of different sounds, genres, and areas of music.

I'm totally open to exploring different types of music. I just have to always remember to be true to who I am.

Music is, of course, a universal emotional experience, cutting across cultures and languages. I studied piano for ten years as a child and consider that experience one of the most valuable in my life.

I feel most comfortable keeping versatile when it comes to music genres.