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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."

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Donna Grant

"Miranda raised her eyebrows. Apparently she hadn't figured me for a country music fan. I liked her for that."

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Donna Grant

"Music reveals the deepest beauty of the soul."

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Donna Grant

"Music fills the void between the heart and soul and connects them in heavenly delights."

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Donna Grant

"I listen to music constantly while writing."

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Donna Grant

"Music heard so deeplyThat it is not heard at all, butyou are the musicWhile the music lasts."

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Donna Grant

"Music is the song of eternal love which touches the soul and fills us with joy."

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Donna Grant

"I think there is a song out there to describe just about any situation."

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Donna Grant

"Music is the language of the universe, which everyone, including all animals, can understand."

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Donna Grant

"Tax not so bad a voice to slander music any more than once."

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Donna Grant

"Music is the primordial language of life. That is why we love it so much. Actually every animal can hear and understand music better than we do."

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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
"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."

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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
"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."

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Yo-Yo Ma
"Things can fall apart, or threaten to, for many reasons, and then there's got to be a leap of faith. Ultimately, when you're at the edge, you have to go forward or backward; if you go forward, you have to jump together."

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Yo-Yo Ma
"After reaching 50, I began to wonder what the root of life is."

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Yo-Yo Ma
"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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