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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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Asa Don Brown

"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."

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Asa Don Brown

"Do you genuinely love people? Or at least make an effort to like them? Your first impressions will be made easier and more successful when you start with your heart."

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Asa Don Brown

"People will not remember what you did for living,they will remember how you touched them with kindness and loving."

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Asa Don Brown

"He makes people pleased with him by making them first pleased with themselves."

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Asa Don Brown

"People are always good company when they are doing what they really enjoy."

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Asa Don Brown

"No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible."

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Asa Don Brown

"With most people disbelief in a thing is founded on a blind belief in some other thing."

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Asa Don Brown

"There are three categories of people exist in the world; "the wanters", "the wishers" and "the makers."

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Asa Don Brown

"Prune - prune businesses, products, activities, people. Do it annually."

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Asa Don Brown

"Some people bear three kinds of trouble - the ones they've had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have."

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

Life

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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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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
"One of the most interesting aspects of the film project was collaborating with so many people - directors, filmmakers, and writers - over a five-year period. I learned that there are two components to this."

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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."

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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
"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
"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."

People

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