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More Quotes by Yo-Yo Ma
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.
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.
Music is one of the ways we can achieve a kind of shorthand to understand each other.
I remember when I was growing up. My great wish was to understand who I was and how I fit in the world.
Culture opens our hearts to one another. And the currency in culture is not money, but trust.
When we enlarge our view of the world, we deepen our understanding of our own lives.
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.
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.
