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More Quotes by Yo-Yo Ma
Culture opens our hearts to one another. And the currency in culture is not money, but trust.
I remember when I was growing up. My great wish was to understand who I was and how I fit in the world.
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.
Our cultural strength has always been derived from our diversity of understanding and experience.
Music enhances the education of our children by helping them to make connections and broadening the depth with which they think and feel. If we are to hope for a society of culturally literate people, music must be a vital part of our children's education.
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.
Sharing is a much better way to communicate than proving.
I have yet to find something that beats the power of being in love, or the power of music at its most magical.
Music is one of the ways we can achieve a kind of shorthand to understand each other.
