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More Quotes by Yo-Yo Ma
Nobody else can make the sound you make.
A Senegalese poet said 'In the end we will conserve only what we love. We love only what we understand, and we will understand only what we are taught.' We must learn about other cultures in order to understand, in order to love, and in order to preserve our common world heritage.
Good things happen when you meet strangers.
Passion is one great force that unleashes creativity, because if you're passionate about something, then you're more willing to take risks.
Perfection is not very communicative
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.
When we enlarge our view of the world, we deepen our understanding of our own lives.
But an innovation, to grow organically from within, has to be based on an intact tradition, so our idea is to bring together musicians who represent all these traditions, in workshops, festivals, and concerts, to see how we can connect with each other in music.
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.
