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"The thing that I've always been slightly frustrated with, was that the idea of a CD is kind of confined to a material possession that you can put on a shelf. And the idea of music, for me, is always about both the communication and the sharing of content. And so the interactive part is missing."

Yo-Yo Ma on Communication

More quotes about Communication

  • "A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation."

    Mark Twain on Communication

  • "Truthful words are not beautiful beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive persuasive words are not good."

    Lao Tzu on Communication

  • "The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place."

    George Bernard Shaw on Communication

  • "Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true."

    Charles Dickens on Communication

  • "I'm a great believer that any tool that enhances communication has profound effects in terms of how people can learn from each other, and how they can achieve the kind of freedoms that they're interested in."

    Bill Gates on Communication

More quotes by Yo-Yo Ma

  • "Things can fall apart, or threaten to, for many reasons, and then there's got to be a leap of faith. Ultimately, when you're at the edge, you have to go forward or backward if you go forward, you have to jump together."

  • "Good things happen when you meet strangers."

  • "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."

  • "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."

  • "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."

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