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More Quotes by Yo-Yo Ma
Perfection is not very communicative
Music is one of the ways we can achieve a kind of shorthand to understand each other.
When your heart and your mind are engaged, you cannot go wrong.
Bach takes you to a very quiet place within yourself, to the inner core, a place where you are calm and at peace.
Sharing is a much better way to communicate than proving.
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.
Classical music is one of the best things that ever happened to mankind. If you get introduced to it in the right way, it becomes your friend for life.
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.
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.
I have yet to find something that beats the power of being in love, or the power of music at its most magical.
