Yo-Yo Ma

Good things happen when you meet strangers. ↗

— Yo-Yo Ma

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I learn something not because I have to, but because I really want to. That's the same view I have for performing. I'm performing because I really want to, not because I have to bring bread back home. ↗

— Yo-Yo Ma

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After reaching 50, I began to wonder what the root of life is. ↗

— Yo-Yo Ma

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When you learn something from people, or from a culture, you accept it as a gift, and it is your lifelong commitment to preserve it and build on it. ↗

— Yo-Yo Ma

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I think of a piece of music as something that comes alive when it is being performed, and I feel that my role in the transmission of music is to be its best advocate at that moment. ↗

— Yo-Yo Ma

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Jazz has been such a force in music, that any musician, including classical composers, have been influenced, and obviously performers, also. ↗

— Yo-Yo Ma

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Many of the Central Asians know Russian, and Ted Levin speaks it fluently. I speak Chinese, but Mongolian is completely different, so we had to have translators. ↗

— Yo-Yo Ma

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Music has always been transnational; people pick up whatever interests them, and certainly a lot of classical music has absorbed influences from all over the world. ↗

— Yo-Yo Ma

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One of the things I love about music is live performance. ↗

— Yo-Yo Ma

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The tango is really a combination of many cultures, though it eventually became the national music of Argentina. ↗

— Yo-Yo Ma

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