Yo-Yo Ma on Creativity

There is a part of me that’s always charging ahead. I’m the curious kid, always going on the edge.

Music is powered by ideas. If you don’t have clarity of ideas, you’re just communicating sheer sound.

Passion is the one great force that unleashed creativity, because if you’re passionate about something, then you are more willing to take risks.

Music is one of the ways we can achieve a kind of shorthand to understand each other.

Each day I move toward that which I do not understand. The result is a continuous accidental learning which constantly shapes my life.

Bach takes you to a very quiet place within yourself,to the inner core,a place where you are calm and at peace.

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