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Yo-Yo Ma
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Yo-Yo Ma
Age: 68
Born: 1955
Born: October 7
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My involvement in the political arena is to make sure there's a place for culture.
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My teacher, my great cello teacher Leonard Rose, was such a great cellist, and nurturing man, very patient. But I grew up not only admiring him, but obviously Casals, Rostrotovich, Jacqueline du Pre, and many others, including many of my peers and contemporaries.
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I think that peace is, in many ways, a precondition of joy.
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With every year of playing, you want to relax one more muscle. Why? Because the more tense you are, the less you can hear.
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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.
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