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I think anybody who goes away finds you appreciate home more when you return.

Yo-Yo Ma

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Yo-Yo Ma
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: October 7
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Paris
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Music is one of the ways we can achieve a kind of shorthand to understand each other.
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You go through phases. You have to reinvent reasons for playing, and one year's answer might not do for another.
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Perfection is not very communicative
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I really would like to be involved in things and to understand things, and in some ways you've got to be careful what you wish for because I feel very, very blessed to have such an interesting life and to be able to have little snapshots of lives of people from many different parts of the world.
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Classical music is one of the best things that ever happened to mankind. If you get introduced to it in the right way, it becomes your friend for life.
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We may be coming to a new golden age of instrument making.
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Many of the Central Asians know Russian, and Ted Levin speaks it fluently. I speak Chinese, but Mongolian is completely different, so we had to have translators.
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Music is powered by ideas. If you don't have clarity of ideas, you're just communicating sheer sound.
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Jazz has been such a force in music, that any musician, including classical composers, have been influenced, and obviously performers, also.
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There's a part of me that's always charging ahead. I'm the curious kid, always going to the edge.
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A Senegalese poet said 'In the end we will conserve only what we love. We love only what we understand, and we will understand only what we are taught.' We must learn about other cultures in order to understand, in order to love, and in order to preserve our common world heritage.
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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.
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When you learn something from people, or from a culture, you accept it as a gift, and it is your lifelong commitment to preserve it and build on it.
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My involvement in the political arena is to make sure there's a place for culture.
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Sharing is a much better way to communicate than proving.
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I think the purpose of a piece of music is significant when it actually lives in somebody else. A composer puts down a code, and a performer can activate the code in somebody else. Once it lives in somebody else, it can live in others as well.
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As a musician I'm kind of nomadic, Waldo-like. I show up in different places, and I'm witness to unbelievable things.
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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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Nobody else can make the sound you make.
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When we enlarge our view of the world, we deepen our understanding of our own lives.
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