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More Quotes by Yo-Yo Ma
When we enlarge our view of the world, we deepen our understanding of our own lives.
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 we have a good balance between thinking and feeling... our actions and lives are always the richer for it.
Sharing is a much better way to communicate than proving.
Culture opens our hearts to one another. And the currency in culture is not money, but trust.
Music is one of the ways we can achieve a kind of shorthand to understand each other.
Perfection is not very communicative
I play an instrument that has four strings, and I'm still trying to get it right. What I've tried to do in the process of playing these four strings is to try and understand the people I meet, the stories they have to tell. And then become an advocate for them and their stories through music.
Passion is one great force that unleashes creativity, because if you're passionate about something, then you're more willing to take risks.
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.
