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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: 69
Born: 1955
Born: October 7
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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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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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Good things happen when you meet strangers.
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Music has always been transnational.
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I think that peace is, in many ways, a precondition of joy.
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I want to investigate different cultures, to see how their identities and values affect their music. It's one way I can get to know our world, at least to a certain depth.
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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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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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Music is one of the ways we can achieve a kind of shorthand to understand each other.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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