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Passion is one great force that unleashes creativity, because if you're passionate about something, then you're more willing to take risks.
― Yo-Yo Ma
Yo-Yo Ma
Passion
Creativity
Creative
When your heart and your mind are engaged, you cannot go wrong.
― Yo-Yo Ma
Yo-Yo Ma
Heart
Mind
Engaged
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.
― Yo-Yo Ma
Yo-Yo Ma
Children
Thinking
People
Nobody else can make the sound you make.
― Yo-Yo Ma
Yo-Yo Ma
Sound
The worst thing you can do is say to yourself, "I want to be just like somebody else." You have to absorb knowledge from someone else, but ultimately you have to find your own voice.
― Yo-Yo Ma
Yo-Yo Ma
Voice
Want
Worst
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.
― Yo-Yo Ma
Yo-Yo Ma
Different
Heritage
Life Changing
When we enlarge our view of the world, we deepen our understanding of our own lives.
― Yo-Yo Ma
Yo-Yo Ma
Views
Diversity
Understanding
I think one of the great things about being a musician is that you never stop learning.
― Yo-Yo Ma
Yo-Yo Ma
Thinking
Musician
Great Things
Each day I move toward that which I do not understand. The result is a continuous accidental learning which constantly shapes my life.
― Yo-Yo Ma
Yo-Yo Ma
Moving
Understanding
Each Day
Culture opens our hearts to one another. And the currency in culture is not money, but trust.
― Yo-Yo Ma
Yo-Yo Ma
Heart
Culture
Currency
Sharing is a much better way to communicate than proving.
― Yo-Yo Ma
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Way
Celebration
Communicate
Music is one of the ways we can achieve a kind of shorthand to understand each other.
― Yo-Yo Ma
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Way
Kind
Achieve
Bach takes you to a very quiet place within yourself, to the inner core, a place where you are calm and at peace.
― Yo-Yo Ma
Yo-Yo Ma
Music
Calm
Quiet
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.
― Yo-Yo Ma
Yo-Yo Ma
Play
People
Trying
When we have a good balance between thinking and feeling... our actions and lives are always the richer for it.
― Yo-Yo Ma
Yo-Yo Ma
Thinking
Feelings
Balance
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.
― Yo-Yo Ma
Yo-Yo Ma
Order
Community
Other Cultures
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.
― Yo-Yo Ma
Yo-Yo Ma
Life
Way
Perfection is not very communicative
― Yo-Yo Ma
Yo-Yo Ma
Perfection
Communicative
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.
― Yo-Yo Ma
Yo-Yo Ma
Together
Special
Want
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.
― Yo-Yo Ma
Yo-Yo Ma
Memories
Imagining
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