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More Quotes by Yo-Yo Ma
When we have a good balance between thinking and feeling... our actions and lives are always the richer for it.
Passion is one great force that unleashes creativity, because if you're passionate about something, then you're more willing to take risks.
Bach takes you to a very quiet place within yourself, to the inner core, a place where you are calm and at peace.
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.
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.
I have yet to find something that beats the power of being in love, or the power of music at its most magical.
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.
I remember when I was growing up. My great wish was to understand who I was and how I fit in the world.
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.
