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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.
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.
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.
Culture opens our hearts to one another. And the currency in culture is not money, but trust.
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.
Good things happen when you meet strangers.
Music is one of the ways we can achieve a kind of shorthand to understand each other.
Perfection is not very communicative
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.
