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More Quotes by Yo-Yo Ma
When your heart and your mind are engaged, you cannot go wrong.
Sharing is a much better way to communicate than proving.
Culture opens our hearts to one another. And the currency in culture is not money, but trust.
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.
Music is one of the ways we can achieve a kind of shorthand to understand each other.
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.
I have yet to find something that beats the power of being in love, or the power of music at its most magical.
When we enlarge our view of the world, we deepen our understanding of our own lives.
When we have a good balance between thinking and feeling... our actions and lives are always the richer for it.
I remember when I was growing up. My great wish was to understand who I was and how I fit in the world.
