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Yo-Yo Ma


American
October 7, 1955
Musician
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After reaching 50, I began to wonder what the root of life is.


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I think that peace is, in many ways, a precondition of joy.


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My involvement in the political arena is to make sure there's a place for culture.


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Music is powered by ideas. If you don't have clarity of ideas, you're just communicating sheer sound.
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When we have a good balance between thinking and feeling... our actions and lives are always the richer for it.
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There's a part of me that's always charging ahead. I'm the curious kid, always going to the edge.


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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.
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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.
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Mastering music is more than learning technical skills. Practicing is about quality, not quantity. Some days I practice for hours; other days it will be just a few minutes.
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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.
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As a child, you respond physically, tactically. You're delighted by sound, you're delighted by recognizing something. It's like hide and seek. Is it there? Is it not there? Is it this note? Is it not this note? It's one fantastic game.
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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.
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The thing that I've always been slightly frustrated with, was that the idea of a CD is kind of confined to a material possession that you can put on a shelf. And the idea of music, for me, is always about both the communication and the sharing of content. And so the interactive part is missing.
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