Famous Cellists Quotes & Quotations

Famous Cellists Quotes & Quotations

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	" But an innovation, to grow organically from within, has to be based on an intact tradition, so our idea is to bring together musicians who represent all these traditions, in workshops, festivals, and concerts, to see how we can connect with each other in music. "		Yoyo Ma

	" Everything has a beginning somewhere and one thing leads to another, though they may not seem connected: from Bach to Baroque to Appalachian folk fiddling . Actually, those have some common elements. "		Yoyo Ma

	" I hope we shall never stop. "		Yoyo Ma

	" I'm 45 years old and I've been playing since I was 15, professionally since I was about 20. I've spent at least 12 and a half years of my life traveling, and one thing that's very depressing and that I'm determined to avoid is not being able to remember what I did in the course of a year. "		Yoyo Ma

	" I'm not likely to forget where I've been and what I've done and learned. I think it's just as important to play new instruments as to play new pieces. The old ones are getting scarcer and the new ones more and more wonderful. "		Yoyo Ma

	" I've been traveling all over the world for 25 years, performing, talking to people, studying their cultures and musical instruments, and I always come away with more questions in my head than can be answered. "		Yoyo Ma

	" It took me way beyond what I knew, into places of which I was totally scared, but as I became less frightened, I welcomed new ways of thinking and approaching something. It made me an infinitely richer person, and I think a better musician. "		Yoyo Ma

	" Many of the Central Asians know Russian, and Ted Levin speaks it fluently. I speak Chinese, but Mongolian is completely different, so we had to have translators. "		Yoyo Ma

	" Music has always been transnational; people pick up whatever interests them, and certainly a lot of classical music has absorbed influences from all over the world. "		Yoyo Ma

	" One is that you have to take time, lots of time, to let an idea grow from within. The second is that when you sign on to something, there will be issues of trust, deep trust, the way the members of a string quartet have to trust one another. "		Yoyo Ma

	" One of the most interesting aspects of the film project was collaborating with so many people - directors, filmmakers, and writers - over a five-year period. I learned that there are two components to this. "		Yoyo Ma

	" Piazzolla absorbed all these strains, then went to New York as a teenager, listened to jazz, and studied in France with Nadia Boulanger. I feel he is a great musician who influenced dance, jazz, and modernism, and developed a new style of tango music. "		Yoyo Ma

	" The music came from African sources and incorporated Spanish and Italian influences; it started from the bottom of society. "		Yoyo Ma

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

	" Things can fall apart, or threaten to, for many reasons, and then there's got to be a leap of faith. Ultimately, when you're at the edge, you have to go forward or backward; if you go forward, you have to jump together. "		Yoyo Ma

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