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Yo-Yo Ma

"I'm not likely to forget where I've been and what I've done and learned. I think it's just as important to play new instruments as to play new pieces. The old ones are getting scarcer and the new ones more and more wonderful."

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"I'm not likely to forget where I've been and what I've done and learned. I think it's just as important to play new instruments as to play new pieces. The old ones are getting scarcer and the new ones more and more wonderful."

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Donna Grant

"I'm so busy these days. I forget everything but my lines."

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"In this bright future you can't forget your past."

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Donna Grant

"If it's hard to remember, it'll be difficult to forget."

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Donna Grant

"If you had told me when I was 18 that I wouldn't have made it until I was 29, I would have said, Forget it."

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Donna Grant

"If you were on the phone with me and Tommy right now, we would probably forget you were there, we'd just be cracking jokes. It's like Beavis and Butthead."

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Donna Grant

"I seem to find different material every four to six months and I frequently forget it which is a shame because it would be nice to have a bigger library."

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Donna Grant

"Don't ever prophesy; for if you prophesy wrong, nobody will forget it; and if you prophesy right, nobody will remember it."

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Donna Grant

"I'm trying to forget how much that cost, but I just had to have them."

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Donna Grant

"I'm not always the nicest person to meet, because I forget very easily that I'm an actress when I'm not working."

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Donna Grant

"This is always a pain because it's injustice too and so my response to it, I tell you what I am more surprised or horrified at Jews who forget to be humanists than I am at anybody else."

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Yo-Yo Ma
"I love grocery shopping when I'm home. That's what makes me feel totally normal. I love both the idea of home as in being with my family and friends, and also the idea of exploration. I think those two are probably my great interests."

Family

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Yo-Yo Ma
"I've been traveling all over the world for 25 years, performing, talking to people, studying their cultures and musical instruments, and I always come away with more questions in my head than can be answered."

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Yo-Yo Ma
"It took me way beyond what I knew, into places of which I was totally scared, but as I became less frightened, I welcomed new ways of thinking and approaching something. It made me an infinitely richer person, and I think a better musician."

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Yo-Yo Ma
"One is that you have to take time, lots of time, to let an idea grow from within. The second is that when you sign on to something, there will be issues of trust, deep trust, the way the members of a string quartet have to trust one another."

Trust

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Yo-Yo Ma
"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."

Music

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Yo-Yo Ma
"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."

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Yo-Yo Ma
"The role of the musician is to go from concept to full execution. Put another way, it's to go from understanding the content of something to really learning how to communicate it and make sure it's well-received and lives in somebody else."

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Yo-Yo Ma
"I'm not likely to forget where I've been and what I've done and learned. I think it's just as important to play new instruments as to play new pieces. The old ones are getting scarcer and the new ones more and more wonderful."

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Yo-Yo Ma
"Good things happen when you meet strangers."

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Yo-Yo Ma
"The tango is really a combination of many cultures, though it eventually became the national music of Argentina."

Music

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