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More Quotes by Yo-Yo Ma
Bach takes you to a very quiet place within yourself, to the inner core, a place where you are calm and at peace.
When we enlarge our view of the world, we deepen our understanding of our own lives.
When your heart and your mind are engaged, you cannot go wrong.
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.
Nobody else can make the sound you make.
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.
Each day I move toward that which I do not understand. The result is a continuous accidental learning which constantly shapes my life.
Music is one of the ways we can achieve a kind of shorthand to understand each other.
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.
Our cultural strength has always been derived from our diversity of understanding and experience.
