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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
Musician
Paris
France
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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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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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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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Music is one of the ways we can achieve a kind of shorthand to understand each other.
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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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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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I think that peace is, in many ways, a precondition of joy.
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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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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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Music enhances the education of our children by helping them to make connections and broadening the depth with which they think and feel. If we are to hope for a society of culturally literate people, music must be a vital part of our children's education.
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Bach takes you to a very quiet place within yourself, to the inner core, a place where you are calm and at peace.
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My involvement in the political arena is to make sure there's a place for culture.
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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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When your heart and your mind are engaged, you cannot go wrong.
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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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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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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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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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This middle age thing is a little weird. Some friends and mentors are gone, and there's a very forward-looking new generation coming up behind me. So it's very much finding my own place.
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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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