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I have yet to find something that beats the power of being in love, or the power of music at its most magical.
Yo-Yo Ma
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Yo-Yo Ma
Age: 68
Born: 1955
Born: October 7
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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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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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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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There's a part of me that's always charging ahead. I'm the curious kid, always going to the edge.
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Sharing is a much better way to communicate than proving.
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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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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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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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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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A Senegalese poet said 'In the end we will conserve only what we love. We love only what we understand, and we will understand only what we are taught.' We must learn about other cultures in order to understand, in order to love, and in order to preserve our common world heritage.
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As you begin to realize that every different type of music, everybody's individual music, has its own rhythm, life, language and heritage, you realize how life changes, and you learn how to be more open and adaptive to what is around us.
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I think anybody who goes away finds you appreciate home more when you return.
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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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Music is one of the ways we can achieve a kind of shorthand to understand each other.
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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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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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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 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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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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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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