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More Quotes by Yo-Yo Ma
Culture opens our hearts to one another. And the currency in culture is not money, but trust.
I think one of the great things about being a musician is that you never stop learning.
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.
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.
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.
Music is one of the ways we can achieve a kind of shorthand to understand each other.
When we have a good balance between thinking and feeling... our actions and lives are always the richer for it.
Perfection is not very communicative
Bach takes you to a very quiet place within yourself, to the inner core, a place where you are calm and at peace.
When we enlarge our view of the world, we deepen our understanding of our own lives.
