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More Quotes by Yo-Yo Ma
Music is one of the ways we can achieve a kind of shorthand to understand each other.
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.
Nobody else can make the sound you make.
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.
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.
When your heart and your mind are engaged, you cannot go wrong.
Passion is one great force that unleashes creativity, because if you're passionate about something, then you're more willing to take risks.
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.
When we enlarge our view of the world, we deepen our understanding of our own lives.
Sharing is a much better way to communicate than proving.
