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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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"Error is acceptable as long as we are young; but one must not drag it along into old age."

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"To come across as younger than they are: Women buy creams that promise to slow aging, men buy fast cars."

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"A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age."

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"I read the Life magazine articles about free love and free dope in California. At age 20 I drove to Los Angeles."

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"If the nineteenth century was the age of the editorial chair, ours is the century of the psychiatrist's couch."

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"A woman telling her true age is like a buyer confiding his final price to an Armenian rug dealer."

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"49 and holding. Holding tight! Fighting that heinous age every step of the way."

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"The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth."

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"I've got volumes on how not to behave. I've got more information now than a guy should have at my age."

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"A final word: I am not knowledgeable about the internet. I do not have a computer. I guess that at 74 years of age, I don't have the patience to learn."

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"After reaching 50, I began to wonder what the root of life is."
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"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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"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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"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."
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"Good things happen when you meet strangers."
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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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"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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"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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"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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"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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