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Yo-Yo Ma

"We may be coming to a new golden age of instrument making."

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"We may be coming to a new golden age of instrument making."

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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
"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
"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."

Life

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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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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
"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 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
"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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"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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Aberjhani

"When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age."

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Aberjhani

"It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour; riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work."

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Aberjhani

"You should not consider a man's age but his acts."

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Aberjhani

"Never let your tiny age misguide you to think the time is not yet up. Get up and do it at any age."

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Aberjhani

"Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise."

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Aberjhani

"The golden age is before us, not behind us."

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Aberjhani

"It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn."

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Aberjhani

"Not even old age knows how to love death."

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Aberjhani

"It is not well to make great changes in old age."

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Aberjhani

"To be happy, we must be true to nature and carry our age along with us."

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