"I love grocery shopping when I'm home. That's 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

posted in home

Yo-Yo Ma quote about home: "I love grocery shopping when I'm home. That's what makes me feel totally normal. I love both the ide..."

Other Quotes

Discover more inspiring quotes from our collection

"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

trustView Quote

"I think there are so many ways to become interested in music. I believe signs of sustained interest gives a sense of the right time. Music, if thought of as a language, would perhaps indicate that as early as possible is not so bad. I do believe that a really nurturing first teacher that makes the child love something is crucial."

-Yo-Yo Ma

teacherView Quote

"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

teacherView Quote

"The role of the musician is to go from concept to full execution. Put another way, it's to go from understanding the content of something to really learning how to communicate it and make sure it's well-received and lives in somebody else."

-Yo-Yo Ma

learningView Quote

"I learn something not because I have to, but because I really want to. That's the same view I have for performing. I'm performing because I really want to, not because I have to bring bread back home."

-Yo-Yo Ma

"Good things happen when you meet strangers."

-Yo-Yo Ma

Same Category

More quotes in this category

"Imagine if you had baseball cards that showed all the performance stats for your people: batting averages, home runs, errors, ERAs, win/loss records. You could see what they did well and poorly and call on the right people to play the right positions in a very transparent way."

-Ray Dalio

"I think it's easiest to teach by example. My dad didn't tell us to work hard we just saw how hard he worked. I know I have shortcomings - like a short fuse - but I've learned you can't come home from a long day of work and snap at the kids."

-Chris O'Donnell

"My father was always depressed. When he was home and sober, he was mostly in his room."

-Sherman Alexie

"To the former child migrants, who came to Australia from a home far away, led to believe this land would be a new beginning, when only to find it was not a beginning, but an end, an end of innocence - we apologise and we are sorry. To the mothers who lost the maternal right to love and care for their child - we apologise, and we are sorry."

-Malcolm Turnbull

"At home I've got a very puerile, juvenile sense of humour."

-Thom Yorke

"We talk a lot in our home together about where we're going, what I'm doing."

-Melinda Gates