Yo Yo Ma Cello Quotes & Sayings

Honey, life can be a ballroom dance and it can be full of shit. Your job in both cases is to watch where you step. — Lorna Landvik

I've been to many beauty salons. No one gave me a certificate. — Ljupka Cvetanova

There are limits to how much sound a cello can make. That's part of the framing of acoustical instruments. Finding what those limits might be, and then trying to suggest perhaps even the illusion of going beyond is part of that kind of effort. — Yo-Yo Ma

How can wealth persuade poverty to use its political freedom to keep wealth in power? Here lies the whole art of Conservative politics. — Ziad K. Abdelnour

Our seats were in the balcony. Nosebleeds. But you don't go to Yo-Yo Ma for the view, and the sound was incredible. That man has a way of making the cello sound like a crying woman one minute, a laughing child the next. Listening to him, I'm always reminded of why I started playing cell in the first place
that there is something so human and expressive about it. — Gayle Forman

If you look at some of the people in the Hall of Fame, my numbers are compatible. — Rickey Henderson

Keeping a guy in prison costs 50,000 bucks a year. Executing one costs a couple million. — John Grisham

Be focused on what God has called you to do — Sunday Adelaja

Set any one to talk about himself, instead of about other people, and you will have a seam of the precious mental metal opened up to you at once; only ore, most likely, that needs much smelting and refining; or it may be, not gold at all, but a metal which your mental alchemy may turn into gold. — George MacDonald

My teacher, my great cello teacher Leonard Rose, was such a great cellist, and nurturing man, very patient. But I grew up not only admiring him, but obviously Casals, Rostrotovich, Jacqueline du Pre, and many others, including many of my peers and contemporaries. — Yo-Yo Ma