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More Quotes by Yo-Yo Ma
Nobody else can make the sound you make.
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.
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.
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.
When we enlarge our view of the world, we deepen our understanding of our own lives.
I have yet to find something that beats the power of being in love, or the power of music at its most magical.
When your heart and your mind are engaged, you cannot go wrong.
Music is one of the ways we can achieve a kind of shorthand to understand each other.
Culture opens our hearts to one another. And the currency in culture is not money, but trust.
