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  • sounds nice but HOW do you enforce that idea.. You imagine greedy CEOs just "using their imagination to put themselves in someone else shoes,"

    please be realistic.

  • Cool name.

  • hi yo-yo ma!

    greetings from HK!

  • i present to you the creator of Yo-Yo!

  • my davos reply

    /watch?v=h7BZjjYNNdA

  • You need ten thousand more people in the back ground talking really loud ok?

  • toiletlog what a funny name. does your toilet always clog? lol

  • umm, well i usually shit in chemical toilets, so they don't need to be flushed, therefore solving one of life's greatest problems - a clogged flush toilet. i do appreciate your concern for my fecal well being though. +1 for you.

  • i wasn't gonna make fun of your name until you made fun of yo-yo ma's name. he happens to be a great cello player and he is respected by others. that's what all i have to say dude, nothing more.

  • ahhh i wasn't making fun of him, just a joke about the name. c'mon, bro you know that shit was clever, no?

  • ..... ok, it was kinda funny, but still not very nice *waves finger*

  • my ma said never trust anyone named yo yo.

  • why? cuz he could turn out to be your dad?

  • I already do exactly what he says, perhaps how i was raised or part of the ideals i always found attractive....but THAT GIVES ME A CONFLICT OF INTEREST WITH THE "WORK HARD" NOTION. Sometimes i look at a co-worker who is having a harder life, raising a family, and i feel guilty for trying to work hard, and advance more....basically i would move on, make more money, and leave him behind.....and he's older than me, and has kids.....makes me feel guilty.

  • life sucks

  • mooie manieren hebben 1ste waarschuwing

  • Yo MAMA

  • that really is funny

  • PLEASE DONT READ THIS. YOU WILL GET KISSED ON THE NEAREST POSSIBLE FRIDAY BY THE LOVE OF YOUR LIFE. TOMORROW WILL BE THE BEST DAY OF YOUR LIFE. HOWEVER IF YOU DONT POST THIS COMMENT TO AT LEAST 3 VIDEOS YOU WILL DIE WITHIN 2 DAYS. NOW UV STARTED READIN DIS DUNT STOP THIS IS SO SCARY. xSEND THIS OVER TO 5 VIDEOS IN 143 MINUTES WHEN UR DONE PRESS F6 AND UR CRUSHES NAME WILL APPEAR ON THE SCREEN IN BIG LETTERS. THIS IS SO SCARY CAUSE IT ACTUALLY WORKS TRY IT..

  • BETTER MIC YO YO.

  • I DIG BOOBIES

  • lol

  • yo moma

  • chineza

  • don't answer in a public place .. I Can't hear you yo yo ma ..

  • hey said 2 answers its only one dick wad

  • what's a yo yo ma? is he saying yo yo mama?

  • fuck off you know nothing about classical music

  • actually i do...but ignorance is a blessing

  • Dearest Yo-Yo,

    I neeeeeed your heeeelp!! It is quite "hard work", isn't it?

    Always love you,

    T

  • THIS ACCUALLY WORKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    1.)say the name of the boy/girl u like 2 times

    2.)now say the name of your bestfriend 5 times to urself

    3.)now post this onto 5 videos and then press f8 and then ur crushes name will appear onthe screen!!!!!!!!!

  • Human being aware of the problems of this world. Join the campaign for the whales. Do NOT BUY JAPANESE PRODUCTS on February 14, 2008. Disseminate information on the sites you visit YT tell all the people you know. We are more together. February 14, 2008 NOT BUY JAPANESE PRODUCTS. Thanks

  • Let me say, on behalf of my country. Recently, we don't eat Whales much as we did in 100 years ago. It is quite difficult for you to find whales' meat in a supermarket. We normally eat Beef, Chicken, Pork, Fish, Beans, Vegetables. I have never eaten Whales, so as Sheep. Are you a Vegetarian?

    Love.

  • A great deal of the Japanese Products are produced in China,may be do not eat sushi instead??

  • Oh, that's a good idea, kokos!!

    We should keep "Sushi" a secret ...

    Love you.

    T

  • CHECK MY VIDS AND ADD ME!

  • dubya dubya dubya (*)namesforpeace (*)com

    Names for Peace (dotcom) belongs to YOU

    Let's start something real that is driven by people all across the planet.

  • Why is this getting so many views? Is he the future of the world? Will he be the president of the globe? Do you think these snappy guys with the snappy soundbites are the future? Just a thought.

  • cause it's yoyoma! he is like the best on playing the cello. dooy! lol.

  • YOYO MA!

    -Kramer

  • Fucking Homo

  • do you know who he is? fuckin nuts

  • YO YO YO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • "Work hard" - we don't live to [only] work... Not everywhere at least.

  • I love Yo Yo Ma - beautiful Music!

  • Yo Yo Ma we love you!! We saw you on new Oprah video!!! super stars 5

  • ZOMG YO YO MA!!

  • Oh, do I ? Sorry.

    I don't mean to rule this small "Channel". I just love Mr. Ma and this beautiful Earth. Sometimes, I'm too aggressive for ignorance.

    Think and say something constructive, youngsters!!

    I'm leaving the Earth, but you're living on the Earth..

  • you rule!!

  • "Extinction of mankind" doesn't mean "destruction of the Earth". Our "loving Earth" will exist for another billion of years.

    For the Earth, the existence of mankind would be just  " a blink of an eye"...

  • haha his name is yo yo ma! rofl yo mama! bitch

  • what will change humankind on a global level is for more women to be in positions of authority.Evolution has damaged our species,but the males(like the "Y" chromosome)has taken most of the damage.I would feel a lot safer if most of our leaders were female.

  • oh gosh, can't believe you ninkenpoops dun actually understand dat i was actually complimenting him. and that was certainly NOT racism. understood ?? dun make me do it in sign language !

  • I've read a book written by a scientist. He thinks mankind is now in danger of destruction. We're so much civilized. Too civilized means, we can't live without civilization. But he is optimistic. He thinks only few mankind who are still living in uncivilized way can survive. By them, mankind won't be totally extinct.

  • how could you say that about yo-yo ma, he doesn't sound like tom cruise, tom cruise is a nut job, who also conciders him self to be a part of the scientest religion.

    we should be loving to others and not to pass judgement, not considering other people and how they feel is selfish.

    and yea he might have money but thats beacuse he has a talent that hes put allot of hard work into, its called having a dream and thats what happens when you strive for it.

  • Ok. Yo-Yo Ma is not Tom Cruise who is a nutcase and a member of the scientology.

    What I meant to say is that I don't believe you'll improve anything of umnakind's situation by just reciting nice moral prescriptions.

    It's self evident that one has to be loving, not to pass judgement and be less selfish. But we have to recongnize that reciting these nice souding sentences DOES NOT make people behave better in most cases.

  • So I think Yo-Yo Ma's words are mere wind because pronounced by a person who doesn't seem to know exactly know what he's talking about and what's going on. (he's in Davos with the wealthiest people in the world).

  • Religion and religious dogmas (be nice to others, etc.) are good for kids and have never and will never be anything else but a way of maintaining poor and uneducated people in obedience.

    It may improve your own personal life, but it will never deeply change humankind on a global level as Mr. Ma probably thinks.

  • O.K. Then, what, do you think, can change humankind on a global level? I think "to be poor (from Western point of view)" isn't " to be unhappy". Sometimes, "Wealthy countries" do too much for, what they think , "Poor countries".

    Love,

    T.

  • Frankly, I don't know exactly and would never even attempt a general answer.

    But I am afraid this kind of language is just a bunch of good intentions that will never do more than tickle the actual path humankind has taken because of its ignorant behaviour.

    Best.

  • Sometimes, I become pessimistic about our future and gave up to trust humankind. As Mr. Ma said, it needs lots of "hard work" to make all humankind wise, loving, understanding. Mr. Ma has been a head of a project called "Silk Road Project" for 10 years. During these 10 years, he's been traveling and gave many concerts of both traditional and collaborative music. I think "Music" is a global language and much easier to share.

    Love.

  • arrrrrrr me heart'ys there be only true creator, one true lord only one believable religion arrrrrrrrrrr that be the church of the flying spaghetti monster,,,,,,,peace and meatballs be to you all ,,,,,, shiver me timbers,

  • I agree empathy is the answer,but what do we do with the one percent of males that cannot feel empathy,and the five percent of males,and two percent of females,that have very low empathy? Part of our species is predatory on the rest,it cannot change,it is hard wired in the brain.

  • Yo-Yo Ma, how disappointing and moral, you sound like Tom Cruise ...

    So easy to be nice and loving, without prejudice when you're full of money. What about when you don't even have enough to feed your kids ?

    People are not nice by will, only by circumstance. Pathetic ideas... "Look around" and what do you see ? War, violence, greed, envy... Be nice ? Morals for the poors!

  • lol is this guy at work??

  • ASIAN FAGGOT

  • "Do gooders" trying to feel good about themselves!

    No real results as yet!

    It is like having phone sex, it feels good and it achieves fuck all!

  • More like making a statement of white supremacy.

  • So in oral Chinese when you say something with 'ma' at the end of a sentence and a raised note to the word 'ma' then you are asking a question. In the case the musician's name, Ma is a name which, as some folks so kindly explained earlier, means ' horse'. The writing of the question 'ma' is

    嗎? while MA Yo Yo is 馬友友. Anybody notice the similarity or difference in writing between the 2 'ma's in Chinese?

  • Oh, I see. I can see the difference between two characters. We, Japanese, don't learn this "ma", even though we learn about 1000 characters in elementary school.

    Whenever I talk with my Korean friend, we have fan with sharing Chinese Characters. Yo-Yo always explains his

    name in Japanese pronunciation "Tomo-Tomo Uma" in

    Japan. He is soooo cute!!

    Love,

    T.

  • the difference is that there is a box beside it..even a slight difference in characters can change the whole meaning of it.

  • Yes! You have good eyes, nigelyap!!

    "Small box" indicates "mouth". Many Chinese characters are from a shape of something. "Ma" also comes from the shape of "running horse". You might see a horse with hair running in a prairie, in "馬".

    Love,

    T.

  • Thanks for the primer on Chinese. Good stuff n Yo Yo is a cool dude!

  • The world needs more thinking like this.

  • Fuck the Davos Question! The Davos meetings are still a bunch of elitist fucking pricks and millionaires. And they don't even LET cameras into the Bilderberg meetings.

  • check out my response

  • Yo! Yo Yo, Yo Yo's are a great toy. Yo Yo played with the Yo Yo while saying Yo to his cousin Ma Ma Yo

  • YO MAMA

  • YO YO MAMA!~

  • Yo yo , what are you doin'

  • asome name yo yo ma and let me tap dat ass

  • yeah, he is the only chinese musician who can stand in line with the whites. great cellist

  • Practise racism, much?

  • I can't stop laughing everytime I keep reading his name.

  • haha this is the bloke who kramer is always sayying "YO YO MA!"

  • AHHAHA What? What episode is that from?

  • who's this guy? his name is yo yo??

  • Yo-Yo Ma, a Parisian-born Chinese, is probably the world's most famous cellist.

  • Blake Sanden <---- GoooooGle That

    Blake Sanden <---- GoooooGle That

    .

  • Blake Sanden <---- GoooooGle That

    .

  • cool Yo Yo Ma is the creator of Zelda thats awesome

  • No he's not

  • this video sucks ass

  • He's latched onto a big part of what is missing! An old saying here is "don't judge someone until you've walked a mile in their moccasins"! How true - seeing the world through the eyes of others, and feel what they feel, to better understand.. a window into our common, shared experiences.

  • He's preaching to the choir. The wealthiest people who consistently lie and steal from the public telling others they need to have empathy. What a joke. Maybe Yo Yo Ma should grow a backbone and put Bill Gates and Bono in their place. Oh wait, they're rich and can do no wrong.

  • Oh wow. You must be so intelligent and so right to make such enlightened comments. I mean to bash someones opinon. Man that is just genius. Wow... And does stealing mean giving freely their money to see a great musician? Cause if it does I am SO against the reciprocation of the arts!

  • Now I realize with surprize!!

    I am soooo proud of to be an "Asian".

    Oh! This is so narrow minded. Yo-Yo and everyone, I apologize. It doesn't matter, wherever you from, what kind of language you speaks, what kind of food you eat, what religion you believe. We're on the same "Boat".

  • Yo Yo Ma... The best!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • You just gave some great advice. Also, you're a great composer :)

  • haha yo yo ma...his first language is French? His English isn't too too bad considering English is his 3rd or 4th language I gather?

    But I assume hes French-Canadian from Quebec? I dont remember meeting anybody that can speak decent English without a HUGE french accent from France

  • Oh! I've forgotten to "be nice to other people". Sorry!!

    I only know, Yo-Yo was born in Paris, and grew up there and moved to New York and graduated from Harvard. I know he speaks Japanese little. And I saw he writes Chinese Character, and his parents are Chinese. That"s all! He may speak other languages.

    I must learn how to improve my "Loving attitude".

  • Well maybe you should meet more people then.

  • YO MAMA!!! NICE

  • good thing he's a cellist and not a philosopher.

  • BLAKE SANDEN <--- <--- GOOOOOGLE that

  • He may not be verbally articulate, but he is not someone who simply preaches without action. He has worked closely with my university on various projects. I admire his passion, and his willingness to share. True artist.

  • Lol i thought it said yo mama answers the question! ROTFLMFAO

  • yo yo ma,it is a chinese name in english,why westen people is easy to make mistake.pity.

  • yo yo ma is such a cool name

  • Yo-Yo Ma's current crop of self help ghurus and

  • Yo yo ma? Yo mama!

  • In 2008 the world will be the same SHITie old world as it always has been!

    Now, fuck off!

  • the best cellist in teh world :D i love this guy

  • Yo-Yo Ma's solution to making the world better is to keep working hard. At what? It is the hard work of humankind that has brought it to this point where it's existence is threatened. We have worked too hard at making ourselves rich at the expense of the planet and now it's payback time. Stop working for greedy corporations and stop fucking to populate corrupt nations.

  • i have a dream, that i can encourage everyone to love the Lord thy God with all strength, mind, and heart. this proves to be an enduring task.but i would appreciate it if you could repost this message a few times even if you don't care.

  • I think he's saying "Keep working hard to be a loving person".

  • i have a dream, that i can encourage everyone to love the Lord thy God with all strength, mind, and heart. this proves to be an enduring task.but i would appreciate it if you could repost this message a few times even if you don't care.

  • I agree with Yo Yo Ma (would he be Mr. Ma, or Mr. Yo Ma, or what?)

  • Last name Ma

  • shimon peres had the right answer

  • look at my guitar hero vids rate and comment subscrbibe(ps i blow an airhorn in my air in one of my videos)

  • yo mama

  • yo mamma

  • "hey, Yo Ma Ma... oops, i meant Yo Yo Ma. Sorry about that!"

  • Thanks..watch my videos..please

  • what is the Davos question?

  • It's reported he dated a sexy biker single model at a biker dating site called mybikerdate.com_ Seems Hilton also joined the online club for passion on Motorcycle.

  • BEST CELLOIST EVER!!!!!!!!!!!

  • Yo yo ma!!!!

  • YO YO! Yo Yo Ma....bet hes heard shit like that his whole life lol

  • um. I think its people like you who he is addressing.

    Yeah, its easy to cynical

    but that would be optimum

  • As much as I detest cynicism I think the current crop of self help ghurus and scam artists place way too much mystical importance on a more positive outlook. In a way we must be carefull of loosing our reason to a glass is half full rose colored glasses mentality. Remember Dr. Phil is as much PROPAGANDA as the Disney Channel. Only not as dark. I say take the best from everything and incorporate it into our lives. Be more cynical when choosing though.

  • Yo yo Ma fucking rules.

  • i thought the tittle was yo yo mama lol

  • i htought this was gonna be one of those yo mama jokes but i guess not haha

  • I think Yo Yo Ma said something that is very true and even if it's not a 2008 issue it's a great answer and idea.

    I think that the Davos question is a great way for people to think about what we can do to achieve "making this world a better place".

    Yo Yo Ma is a very great man. His music is awesome and just because he's not making modern music it doesn't mean he doesn't make great music.

  • All actions have their beginning in thoughts... I hope this inspires many!!

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  • check out my vids they wiil change ur life!

  • wtf

  • He is ma ma yo. Anyone in the music world knows him.

  • Well... maybe not the way I would have said, but the actual message that he is trying to convey seems spot on, in my opinion.

  • What he just said? LOL

  • Awesome video!

  • Yo Yo Ma is a freak on the Chello! Good response Yo.

  • You have such a soft English voice, its kind of creepy. is it your first language, it must be.

  • No. His first language is French. And of course, he can speak Chinese and Japanese. Sorry for that.

  • fcuk u

  • he´s a very well known musician

  • Lol. His name is Yo Ma Ma only the opposite. Lol. My teacher knew him. Cause my teacher's awesome!

  • Who is that?

  • When I first read the title of this video, I thought it said "Yo Mama answers the Davos Question." lol :P

  • me too

  • So did I :p

  • me too

  • Rock on, Yo Yo Ma!

  • "Catholicism conditions your mind for dictators." - Malcolm X

  • i get to meet him with a small group of orchestra students in a couple of months.

  • my lat comment was in response to joshdesk

  • Dear Yo-Yo,

    I think my answer to the Davos Question is:Music or any kinds of "Arts" would help to train our "Imagination", thus, eventually they would help us to understand others. Whenever I listen to"your music", I can imagine the

    composer's life, his romance, or his purpose.

    Also, "to love someone special" would improve our imagination! What do you think?

    Love,

    T.

  • What a wonderful, insightful person. I think I love you.

  • man this is sooo gay....yo yo ma got a dank azz name, but he cant do it like souljah boy can imo LOL

  • comments like this is why the world is the way it is today. my stupid self-centered fellow americans are too busy bashing a highly respected musician and listening to horrible music instead of actually listening to what yo yo ma had to say. WAKE UP AMERICA, its time to get our heads out of our asses

  • LOL u jus be hatin cuz soljah boy be gettin payed!!!!!!!

  • ur sucha idiot

  • someone explain this shit to me?

  • It's called sarcasm, friend.

    However, I will say that it's got nothing to do with America. Not that I'm a flag-waver by any means. But countries all over the globe pretty much suck, except for like Iceland and Switzerland, because they're small, but economically strong. But c'mon Broseph, it ain't just Americans...

  • Probably the truest answer ever... good goin' Yo Yo Ma! =)

  • yo yo!! ahhh! I love you asnd your music!!

  • Yo Yo mamma!

  • Yo Yo Ma is the most amazing cellist ever. :D

    I agree with what he said.

  • who the fuck is this o-o

  • YEAH YO YO MA! :D

  • Agreed :)

    Notice how all these really famous, successful people are spreading the ideas of actually being nice to others. That's probably one of the reasons they became so successful in the first place.

  • are you fucking retarded?, they got to where they are today by ACTING and being totally evil behind the scenes, you brainwashed fool

  • Why are you so intent on making people feel like everyone is their enemy? Even if you really think they don't mean what they say, don't you think it's a good message?

  • its clearly you who retarded

    yoyo ma is a classical musician

    all that takes is skill, creativity, and dedication

    where the evil?

  • Whoa, whoa, dudes.

    Both of you have valid points, but I mean, let's face it. The Davos Question is...to be frank, a little sketchy. I think it's great! But it's...kind of...I dunno.

  • what is this davos question??

  • The answer to the Davos question is this:- "BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH DUMBDY DUMBDY DUMB PHNAR PHNAR PHNAR BLIP POP GOBBLE SCOOP CLICKERTY CLICK 66."

    RIGHT YOU CAN ALL GO HOME NOW AND STOP WASTING OUR MONEY ON SUCH A SELF INDULGENT ROMP, DRESSED UP AS SOME MASS CONGREGATION OF CONSCIENCE.

    love Hollowhead XXX

  • this davos stuff is new world order propaganda, they want to kill 80% of the worlds population, they created AIDS, there vaccines are filled with murcury and live cancer viruses, don't trust these people

  • plz can someone say to me whats davos question is

    plz reply I really want to understand it