#thing

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

#because #bread #bring #home #i

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

#another way #communicate #concept #content #else

I really would like to be involved in things and to understand things, and in some ways you've got to be careful what you wish for because I feel very, very blessed to have such an interesting life and to be able to have little snapshots of lives of people from many different parts of the world. ↗

— Yo-Yo Ma

#be careful #because #blessed #careful #different

I think of a piece of music as something that comes alive when it is being performed, and I feel that my role in the transmission of music is to be its best advocate at that moment. ↗

— Yo-Yo Ma

#alive #being #best #comes #feel

It took me way beyond what I knew, into places of which I was totally scared, but as I became less frightened, I welcomed new ways of thinking and approaching something. It made me an infinitely richer person, and I think a better musician. ↗

— Yo-Yo Ma

#became #better #beyond #frightened #i

One of the things I love about music is live performance. ↗

— Yo-Yo Ma

#i #i love #live #live performance #love

When my mother signed at MGM, that was the only kind of contract you could sign. There was no such thing as an independent agent. ↗

— Lorna Luft

#contract #could #independent #kind #mgm

It is women who bear the race in bloody agony. Suffering is a kind of horror. Blood is a kind of horror. Women are born with horror in their very bloodstream. It is a biological thing. ↗

— Bela Lugosi

#bear #biological #blood #bloodstream #bloody

I tell my agent that I want to read everything. ↗

— Jena Malone

#everything #i #read #tell #want

I'll be truthful. The weekly paycheck is the most important thing to me. ↗

— Bela Lugosi

#important #important thing #me #most #paycheck