"The cellist is an intellectual omnivore as much as a musician. He talks about why neuroscience fascinates him – and what it reveals about our creative impulses. (...) I suggest that music is exploiting our instincts to make sense of our environment, to look for patterns, to develop hypotheses about our environment. It’s setting us puzzles. (…) Music is powered by ideas. If you don’t have clarity of ideas, you’re just communicating sheer sound.” (…) It is about finding ways to communicate ideas in a manner that yields the greatest harvest of creativity. “There is nothing more important today than to find a way to be knowledge-based creative societies. My job as a performer is to make sure that whatever happens in a performance lives in somebody else, that it’s memorable… If you forget tomorrow what you heard yesterday, there’s really not much point in you having been there – or me, for that matter. Now, isn’t that the purpose of education too? That’s when I realised that education and culture are the same. Once something is memorable, it’s living and you’re using it. That to me is the foundation of a creative society.” - Amira

he came to my undergrad to play; it was incredible - ωαřмaiden ❤Bassetmom❤

I freaking love Yo-Yo Ma. - Hookuh Tinypants

I first misread the title as Yo Yo Mama, and thought somebody was just mocking around. - babeuf(donata donata'dan)