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When we enlarge our view of the world, we deepen our understanding of our own lives.

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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 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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I remember when I was growing up. My great wish was to understand who I was and how I fit in the world.
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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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Culture opens our hearts to one another. And the currency in culture is not money, but trust.
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I think of a piece of music as something that comes alive when it is being performed, and I feel that my role in the transmission of music is to be its best advocate at that moment.
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One of the things I love about music is live performance.
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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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Sound is ephemeral, fleeting, but some sort of a physical manifestation can help you hold on to it longer in time. I'm sure of this I've always thought the sound that you make is just the tip of the iceberg, like the person that you see physically is just the tip of the iceberg as well.
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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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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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Nobody else can make the sound you make.
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People will ask, 'Are you famous?' And I always answer, 'My mother thinks so.'
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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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I think one of the great things about being a musician is that you never stop learning.
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I've been traveling all over the world for 25 years, performing, talking to people, studying their cultures and musical instruments, and I always come away with more questions in my head than can be answered.
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We may be coming to a new golden age of instrument making.
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I think anybody who goes away finds you appreciate home more when you return.
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One of the most interesting aspects of the film project was collaborating with so many people - directors, filmmakers, and writers - over a five-year period. I learned that there are two components to this.
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I love grocery shopping when I'm home. That's what makes me feel totally normal. I love both the idea of home as in being with my family and friends, and also the idea of exploration. I think those two are probably my great interests.
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Our cultural strength has always been derived from our diversity of understanding and experience.
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