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When we have a good balance between thinking and feeling... our actions and lives are always the richer for it.
Yo-Yo Ma
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Yo-Yo Ma
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: October 7
Actor
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Paris
France
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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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People will ask, 'Are you famous?' And I always answer, 'My mother thinks so.'
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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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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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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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Passion is one great force that unleashes creativity, because if you're passionate about something, then you're more willing to take risks.
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We may be coming to a new golden age of instrument making.
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When people ask me how they should approach performance, I always tell them the professional musician should aspire to the state of the beginner.
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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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