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Sharing is a much better way to communicate than proving.

Yo-Yo Ma

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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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With every year of playing, you want to relax one more muscle. Why? Because the more tense you are, the less you can hear.
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The worst thing you can do is say to yourself, I want to be just like somebody else. You have to absorb knowledge from someone else, but ultimately you have to find your own voice.
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Good things happen when you meet strangers.
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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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You go through phases. You have to reinvent reasons for playing, and one year's answer might not do for another.
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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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We may be coming to a new golden age of instrument making.
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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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Nobody else can make the sound you make.
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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 realized late in life that my twin passions are music and people.
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My involvement in the political arena is to make sure there's a place for culture.
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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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Culture opens our hearts to one another. And the currency in culture is not money, but trust.
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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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Classical music is one of the best things that ever happened to mankind. If you get introduced to it in the right way, it becomes your friend for life.
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I think the purpose of a piece of music is significant when it actually lives in somebody else. A composer puts down a code, and a performer can activate the code in somebody else. Once it lives in somebody else, it can live in others as well.
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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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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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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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