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More Quotes by Yo-Yo Ma
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.
I remember when I was growing up. My great wish was to understand who I was and how I fit in the world.
Sharing is a much better way to communicate than proving.
I think one of the great things about being a musician is that you never stop learning.
When we enlarge our view of the world, we deepen our understanding of our own lives.
Nobody else can make the sound you make.
Bach takes you to a very quiet place within yourself, to the inner core, a place where you are calm and at peace.
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.
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.
Each day I move toward that which I do not understand. The result is a continuous accidental learning which constantly shapes my life.