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More Quotes by Yo-Yo Ma
I remember when I was growing up. My great wish was to understand who I was and how I fit in the world.
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.
Good things happen when you meet strangers.
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.
Each day I move toward that which I do not understand. The result is a continuous accidental learning which constantly shapes my life.
Nobody else can make the sound you make.
When we have a good balance between thinking and feeling... our actions and lives are always the richer for it.
Bach takes you to a very quiet place within yourself, to the inner core, a place where you are calm and at peace.
When your heart and your mind are engaged, you cannot go wrong.
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.
