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More Quotes by Yo-Yo Ma
Music is one of the ways we can achieve a kind of shorthand to understand each other.
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.
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.
Good things happen when you meet strangers.
In performance, we have a greater purpose. The greater purpose is that we're communing together, and we want this moment to be really special for all of us. Because otherwise, why bother to have come at all? It's not about proving anything. It's about sharing something.
Our cultural strength has always been derived from our diversity of understanding and experience.
Sharing is a much better way to communicate than proving.
Passion is one great force that unleashes creativity, because if you're passionate about something, then you're more willing to take risks.
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.
