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Culture opens our hearts to one another. And the currency in culture is not money, but trust.

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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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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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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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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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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This middle age thing is a little weird. Some friends and mentors are gone, and there's a very forward-looking new generation coming up behind me. So it's very much finding my own place.
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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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Sharing is a much better way to communicate than proving.
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When we have a good balance between thinking and feeling... our actions and lives are always the richer for it.
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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 anybody who goes away finds you appreciate home more when you return.
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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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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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After reaching 50, I began to wonder what the root of life is.
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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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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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Our cultural strength has always been derived from our diversity of understanding and experience.
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My involvement in the political arena is to make sure there's a place for culture.
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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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Many of the Central Asians know Russian, and Ted Levin speaks it fluently. I speak Chinese, but Mongolian is completely different, so we had to have translators.
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Music has always been transnational.
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