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Yo-Yo Ma
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Yo-Yo Ma
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: October 7
Actor
Cellist
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Music Pedagogue
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Paris
France
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I think there are so many ways to become interested in music. I believe signs of sustained interest gives a sense of the right time. Music, if thought of as a language, would perhaps indicate that as early as possible is not so bad. I do believe that a really nurturing first teacher that makes the child love something is crucial.
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Perfection is not very communicative
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One of the things I love about music is live performance.
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Nobody else can make the sound you make.
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As a child, you respond physically, tactically. You're delighted by sound, you're delighted by recognizing something. It's like hide and seek. Is it there? Is it not there? Is it this note? Is it not this note? It's one fantastic game.
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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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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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I think that peace is, in many ways, a precondition of joy.
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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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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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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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I really would like to be involved in things and to understand things, and in some ways you've got to be careful what you wish for because I feel very, very blessed to have such an interesting life and to be able to have little snapshots of lives of people from many different parts of the world.
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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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When we enlarge our view of the world, we deepen our understanding of our own lives.
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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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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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Practicing is not only playing your instrument, either by yourself or rehearsing with others - it also includes imagining yourself practicing. Your brain forms the same neural connections and muscle memory whether you are imagining the task or actually doing it.
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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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Children, in a way, are constant learners. Certainly sponge-like. Absorbing everything without careful analysis, even though, at the same time, they are certainly capable of incredible insights.
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I think anybody who goes away finds you appreciate home more when you return.
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