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I realized late in life that my twin passions are music and people.

There's a part of me that's always charging ahead. I'm the curious kid, always going to the edge.

One of the things I love about music is live performance.

Music is powered by ideas. If you don't have clarity of ideas, you're just communicating sheer sound.

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.

From Yo-Yo Ma

I really would like to be involved in things and to understand things, and in some ways you've got to be careful what you wish for because I feel very, very blessed to have such an interesting life and to be able to have little snapshots of lives of people from many different parts of the world.

From 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.

From Yo-Yo Ma

I think there are so many ways to become interested in music. I believe signs of sustained interest gives a sense of the right time. Music, if thought of as a language, would perhaps indicate that as early as possible is not so bad. I do believe that a really nurturing first teacher that makes the child love something is crucial.

From Yo-Yo Ma

As a child, you respond physically, tactically. You're delighted by sound, you're delighted by recognizing something. It's like hide and seek. Is it there? Is it not there? Is it this note? Is it not this note? It's one fantastic game.

From 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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