Logo
Quote by Yo-Yo Ma
I learn something not because I have to, but because I really want

I learn something not because I have to, but because I really want to. Thats the same view I have for performing. Im performing because I really want to, not because I have to bring bread back home. – Yo-Yo Ma

Other quotes by Yo-Yo Ma

I love grocery shopping when Im home. Thats what makes me feel totally normal. I love both the idea of home as in being with my family and friends, and also the idea of exploration. I think those two are probably my great interests. – Yo-Yo Ma

Category:
Home
Author
Yo-Yo Ma
Read Quote

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. – Yo-Yo Ma

Category:
Trust
Author
Yo-Yo Ma
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Home
category

God the Father, the supreme Architect, had already built this cosmic home we behold, the most sacred temple of His godhead, by the laws of His mysterious wisdom. – Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

Category:
Home

I do portraits. I usually do live models in a class environment, but Ive been painting at home more. I really love the human form, and I love faces. Ive tried to do landscapes a few times. – Michelle Pfeiffer

Category:
Home

I grew up in an abusive home and was told on a daily basis by my father that I would never amount to anything and that I looked like a boy. – Janice Dickinson

Category:
Home

An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris. – Friedrich Nietzsche

Category:
Home

Random Quotes

Sympathy is something that shouldnt be bestowed upon the Yankees. Apparently it angers them. – Bob Feller

Category:
Sympathy

People forget… that we structured it so that the government, or the people, would be repaid with a really good rate of return. And as it turns out, that aspect of TARP, thats what happened. – George W. Bush

Category:
Government

True education is limited to those people who would die without knowing, whereas the masses in the institutions are merely going through the motions, for education is a way of living. – Bryant H. McGill

Category:
Education

It is a comely fashion to be glad; Joy is the grace we say to God. – Jean Ingelow

Category:
Happiness