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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.

Yo-Yo Ma

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Yo-Yo Ma
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: October 7
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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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The role of the musician is to go from concept to full execution. Put another way, it's to go from understanding the content of something to really learning how to communicate it and make sure it's well-received and lives in somebody else.
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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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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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Culture opens our hearts to one another. And the currency in culture is not money, but trust.
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When your heart and your mind are engaged, you cannot go wrong.
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We may be coming to a new golden age of instrument making.
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The tango is really a combination of many cultures, though it eventually became the national music of Argentina.
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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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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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Things can fall apart, or threaten to, for many reasons, and then there's got to be a leap of faith. Ultimately, when you're at the edge, you have to go forward or backward if you go forward, you have to jump together.
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Sharing is a much better way to communicate than proving.
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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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After reaching 50, I began to wonder what the root of life is.
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When we enlarge our view of the world, we deepen our understanding of our own lives.
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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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Our cultural strength has always been derived from our diversity of understanding and experience.
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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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In performance, we have a greater purpose. The greater purpose is that we're communing together, and we want this moment to be really special for all of us. Because otherwise, why bother to have come at all? It's not about proving anything. It's about sharing something.
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