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As you begin to realize that every different type of music, everybody's individual music, has its own rhythm, life, language and heritage, you realize how life changes, and you learn how to be more open and adaptive to what is around us.

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Yo-Yo Ma
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: October 7
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