Yo-Yo Ma Quotes

I think that peace is, in many ways, a precondition of joy.

Yo-Yo Ma

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The more I go on in this career of making albums, writing songs and playing music, the more I think of each album as a movie. I really wanted to make a film, but making a film is much more expensive than making a record.

J. D. Souther
- Music
- Writing
- Movie
I think Freud is about contamination, but I think that is something he learned from Shakespeare, because Shakespeare is about nothing but contamination, you might say.

Harold Bloom
- Think
- You
- Learned
It's a fact that kids watch TV. But if you think back, when you watched cowboy movies, you would go out and play cowboys. TV and movies motivate people.

Magnus Scheving
- People
- Kids
- Think
I think that a lot of guys reach for electronics first, but the truth is that you can never keep up with electronics. You buy a flat-screen TV, and then six months later, there's one that has 3D and Blu-ray and all this business, and that is just going to keep continuing.

Nate Berkus
- Up
- Business
- Truth
I just realized quite early on that I'm not going to be the type who can write a novel every two years. I think you need to feel an urgency about the act. Otherwise, when you read it, you feel no urgency, either. So I don't write unless I really feel I need to, and that's a luxury.

Zadie Smith
- Think
- Write
- Luxury
What matters is that you are doing what you think is right based on the standards which you hold.

Walter Annenberg
- Think
- Doing
- Matters