Yo-Yo Ma Quotes

My mother always took my brothers and me to music lessons. There were six children. Our parents attended our concerts and encouraged us to study and enjoy many different types of music.

The more I got into playing guitar, the more I enjoyed music, and the broader my listening became. The instrument itself became important to me, and I started messing around with classical guitar and took classical lessons.

At the age of nine, playing the violin at school, and then onto the mandolin.

I used to play drums when I was a kid, play the trombone.

When I went to college, I thought I was going to become a professional musician. I was a French horn player, so I went to Yale to study with a very unusual French horn player.

And I like music, too, I like playing music.

The key to longevity is to learn every aspect of music that you can.

My mum was very good at making me take up musical instruments, so although there was no popular music she made me learn the recorder when I was three, the violin when I was five and the piano when I was seven. I took up the guitar myself when I was 14.

My parents worked for Exxon, and they gave me every chance to take part in music. I took guitar lessons, and I was in the choir at school.

The music stuff is just a hobby.

You know I'm a bit of a dag because I listen to classical music. I recently bought myself an iPod and downloaded every piece of classical music that I had access to onto that.

We are excited about the music, past and present and future, and are really looking forward to playing.

I've been playing since I was eight years old.

I always had a fascination with music.

In the United States, we spend millions of dollars on sports because it promotes teamwork, discipline, and the experience of learning to make great progress in small increments. Learning to play music does all this and more.

I am a big music nerd.

Music is an element that should be part and parcel of every child's life via the education system.

When I was 12, I decided to become a musician. 'Physical Graffiti' was the first album I ever owned.

I studied violin when I was very young.

I played music my whole life - piano, saxophone.

I was playing drums in church when I was six. Then I picked up the piano when I was 11 or 12.

My mum was a music teacher. I've got three sisters, and we all played instruments when we were kids.

I first started playing the violin at 6. And then at 7, it was piano. So from then it was just classical music like every day.

Now that I'm in my late 40s, I'm trying to make up for a little bit of lost musicals time.

I've always been into music. My mom and dad used to always play music in the house.