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When we enlarge our view of the world, we deepen our understanding of our own lives.
Yo-Yo Ma
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Yo-Yo Ma
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: October 7
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Paris
France
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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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Music is one of the ways we can achieve a kind of shorthand to understand each other.
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I think anybody who goes away finds you appreciate home more when you return.
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But an innovation, to grow organically from within, has to be based on an intact tradition, so our idea is to bring together musicians who represent all these traditions, in workshops, festivals, and concerts, to see how we can connect with each other in music.
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My involvement in the political arena is to make sure there's a place for culture.
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I realized late in life that my twin passions are music and people.
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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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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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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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Our cultural strength has always been derived from our diversity of understanding and experience.
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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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