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More Quotes by Yo-Yo Ma
When your heart and your mind are engaged, you cannot go wrong.
But an innovation, to grow organically from within, has to be based on an intact tradition, so our idea is to bring together musicians who represent all these traditions, in workshops, festivals, and concerts, to see how we can connect with each other in music.
Our cultural strength has always been derived from our diversity of understanding and experience.
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.
Sharing is a much better way to communicate than proving.
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.
I have yet to find something that beats the power of being in love, or the power of music at its most magical.
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.
Good things happen when you meet strangers.
