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When we have a good balance between thinking and feeling... our actions and lives are always the richer for it.

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Yo-Yo Ma
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: October 7
Actor
Cellist
Composer
Music Pedagogue
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Paris
France
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I realized late in life that my twin passions are music and people.
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Practicing is not only playing your instrument, either by yourself or rehearsing with others - it also includes imagining yourself practicing. Your brain forms the same neural connections and muscle memory whether you are imagining the task or actually doing it.
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People will ask, 'Are you famous?' And I always answer, 'My mother thinks so.'
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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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Once something is memorable, it's living and you're using it. That to me is the foundation of a creative society.
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You must have a reason to be in the places to which you go, and you must do only things that you really care about.
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After reaching 50, I began to wonder what the root of life is.
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Our cultural strength has always been derived from our diversity of understanding and experience.
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I think one of the great things about being a musician is that you never stop learning.
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Music has always been transnational people pick up whatever interests them, and certainly a lot of classical music has absorbed influences from all over the world.
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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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I want to investigate different cultures, to see how their identities and values affect their music. It's one way I can get to know our world, at least to a certain depth.
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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 don't always have a five-year plan. One thing you must do in life is keep your learning curve as high as possible.
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One is that you have to take time, lots of time, to let an idea grow from within. The second is that when you sign on to something, there will be issues of trust, deep trust, the way the members of a string quartet have to trust one another.
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The tango is really a combination of many cultures, though it eventually became the national music of Argentina.
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I think that peace is, in many ways, a precondition of joy.
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I think there are so many ways to become interested in music. I believe signs of sustained interest gives a sense of the right time. Music, if thought of as a language, would perhaps indicate that as early as possible is not so bad. I do believe that a really nurturing first teacher that makes the child love something is crucial.
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