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More Quotes by Yo-Yo Ma
Our cultural strength has always been derived from our diversity of understanding and experience.
Each day I move toward that which I do not understand. The result is a continuous accidental learning which constantly shapes my life.
When your heart and your mind are engaged, you cannot go wrong.
Culture opens our hearts to one another. And the currency in culture is not money, but trust.
The worst thing you can do is say to yourself, "I want to be just like somebody else." You have to absorb knowledge from someone else, but ultimately you have to find your own voice.
When we have a good balance between thinking and feeling... our actions and lives are always the richer for it.
Bach takes you to a very quiet place within yourself, to the inner core, a place where you are calm and at peace.
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.
Good things happen when you meet strangers.
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.
