Yo-Yo Ma Quotes

Guitar is the most expressive instrument in the world. I don't play much any more. Maybe a bit in private.

I started playing harp about fourteen years ago.

I had a good guitar, and I was a young, young kid.

I started writing songs when I started learning guitar.

It was my love for the guitar that first got me into music and singing.

How does my music connect to an audience? That is just a complete mystery to me.

I play the ukulele. Is that quirky?

I'd love to claim the title of 'songwriter' or 'intellectual,' but the truth is that anything that I ever learned how to do in conjunction with music was purely so that I would have a platform to sing from.

Well, I don't know any piece by heart, but Mozart goes something like this... What do you think?

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

I play the guitar.

I like to let the songs speak so that they can go through some kind of rebirth as you play them.

When it comes to songs and music, yeah, people love to sing and dance and play music and tunes, and that stream of consciousness that exists in music, nobody knows where that comes from.

Leave your ego, play the music, love the people.

Music can be the bridge to understanding, but people have to get some knowledge.

I learned so much about music by playing this little, miniature songwriting machine [ukulele], especially about melody. The motto is less strings more melody.

Music is the most important thing. I'm thinking of my future. There has to be something new, and I want to be part of it. I want to lead an orchestra with excellent musicians. I want to play music which draws pictures of the world and its space

I play music - I write my own music, but I play music, just background music really, and just let it happen.

The Violin of my dreams. If you wanna play a pianissimo that is almost inaudible and yet it carries through a hall that seats 3,000 people, there's your Strad.

I was a guitar player first off.

The saxophone is a very interesting machine, but I'm more interested in music.

I just play the guitar and write songs.

I'm wallowing in the whole idea of just being a guy out there with a band, with songs. It's a real enjoyment.

The relation between practical and spiritual spheres in music is obvious, if only because it demands ears, finger, consciousness and intellect.

Earlier in my life, I performed a lot of music. Some of it because I felt it was a demonstration, or a representation of certain intellectual concepts that were very exciting and important.