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More Quotes by Yo-Yo Ma
When we enlarge our view of the world, we deepen our understanding of our own lives.
Music is one of the ways we can achieve a kind of shorthand to understand each other.
Sharing is a much better way to communicate than proving.
Our cultural strength has always been derived from our diversity of understanding and experience.
When your heart and your mind are engaged, you cannot go wrong.
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.
Perfection is not very communicative
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.
I have yet to find something that beats the power of being in love, or the power of music at its most magical.
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.
