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More Quotes by Yo-Yo Ma
Nobody else can make the sound you make.
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.
Our cultural strength has always been derived from our diversity of understanding and experience.
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.
Music is one of the ways we can achieve a kind of shorthand to understand each other.
Good things happen when you meet strangers.
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.
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.
Bach takes you to a very quiet place within yourself, to the inner core, a place where you are calm and at peace.
Culture opens our hearts to one another. And the currency in culture is not money, but trust.
