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Our cultural strength has always been derived from our diversity of understanding and experience.

Yo-Yo Ma

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Yo-Yo Ma
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: October 7
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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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Each day I move toward that which I do not understand. The result is a continuous accidental learning which constantly shapes my life.
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People will ask, 'Are you famous?' And I always answer, 'My mother thinks so.'
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After reaching 50, I began to wonder what the root of life is.
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I play an instrument that has four strings, and I'm still trying to get it right. What I've tried to do in the process of playing these four strings is to try and understand the people I meet, the stories they have to tell. And then become an advocate for them and their stories through music.
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One of the marks of a great teacher lies not only in an ability to impart knowledge but also in knowing when to encourage a student to go off on his own.
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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 think anybody who goes away finds you appreciate home more when you return.
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I have yet to find something that beats the power of being in love, or the power of music at its most magical.
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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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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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One of the things I love about music is live performance.
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Sharing is a much better way to communicate than proving.
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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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The tradition of classical music and the opera is such that it used to be the place where social intercourse could take place between all parts of society: politicians, industrialists, artists, citizens, etc. That tradition, I think, still exists, but it's much, much more diluted.
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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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