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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.
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.
Our cultural strength has always been derived from our diversity of understanding and experience.
Music is one of the ways we can achieve a kind of shorthand to understand each other.
Nobody else can make the sound you make.
When we have a good balance between thinking and feeling... our actions and lives are always the richer for it.
Sharing is a much better way to communicate than proving.
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.
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.
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.
