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Yo-Yo Ma Quote: “This middle age thing is a little weird. Some friends and mentors are gone, and there’s a very forward-looking new generation coming up behind me. So it’s very much finding my own place.”

51. “This middle age thing is a little weird. Some friends and mentors are gone, and there’s a very forward-looking new generation coming up behind me. So it’s very much finding my own place.”

Yo-Yo Ma Quote: “After reaching 50, I began to wonder what the root of life is.”

52. “After reaching 50, I began to wonder what the root of life is.”

Yo-Yo Ma Quote: “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.”

53. “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.”

Yo-Yo Ma Quote: “Many of the Central Asians know Russian, and Ted Levin speaks it fluently. I speak Chinese, but Mongolian is completely different, so we had to have translators.”

54. “Many of the Central Asians know Russian, and Ted Levin speaks it fluently. I speak Chinese, but Mongolian is completely different, so we had to have translators.”

Yo-Yo Ma Quote: “I think the purpose of a piece of music is significant when it actually lives in somebody else. A composer puts down a code, and a performer can activate the code in somebody else. Once it lives in somebody else, it can live in others as well.”

55. “I think the purpose of a piece of music is significant when it actually lives in somebody else. A composer puts down a code, and a performer can activate the code in somebody else. Once it lives in somebody else, it can live in others as well.”

Yo-Yo Ma Quote: “There are limits to how much sound a cello can make. That’s part of the framing of acoustical instruments. Finding what those limits might be, and then trying to suggest perhaps even the illusion of going beyond is part of that kind of effort.”

56. “There are limits to how much sound a cello can make. That’s part of the framing of acoustical instruments. Finding what those limits might be, and then trying to suggest perhaps even the illusion of going beyond is part of that kind of effort.”

Yo-Yo Ma Quote: “We may be coming to a new golden age of instrument making.”

57. “We may be coming to a new golden age of instrument making.”

Yo-Yo Ma Quote: “One of the things I love about music is live performance.”

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

Yo-Yo Ma Quote: “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.”

59. “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.”

Yo-Yo Ma Quote: “With every year of playing, you want to relax one more muscle. Why? Because the more tense you are, the less you can hear.”

60. “With every year of playing, you want to relax one more muscle. Why? Because the more tense you are, the less you can hear.”

Yo-Yo Ma Quote: “My involvement in the political arena is to make sure there’s a place for culture.”

61. “My involvement in the political arena is to make sure there’s a place for culture.”

Yo-Yo Ma Quote: “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.”

62. “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.”

Yo-Yo Ma Quote: “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.”

63. “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.”

Yo-Yo Ma Quote: “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.”

64. “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.”

Yo-Yo Ma Quote: “As a musician I’m kind of nomadic, Waldo-like. I show up in different places, and I’m witness to unbelievable things.”

65. “As a musician I’m kind of nomadic, Waldo-like. I show up in different places, and I’m witness to unbelievable things.”

Yo-Yo Ma Quote: “You go through phases. You have to reinvent reasons for playing, and one year’s answer might not do for another.”

66. “You go through phases. You have to reinvent reasons for playing, and one year’s answer might not do for another.”

Yo-Yo Ma Quote: “The thing that I’ve always been slightly frustrated with, was that the idea of a CD is kind of confined to a material possession that you can put on a shelf. And the idea of music, for me, is always about both the communication and the sharing of content. And so the interactive part is missing.”

67. “The thing that I’ve always been slightly frustrated with, was that the idea of a CD is kind of confined to a material possession that you can put on a shelf. And the idea of music, for me, is always about both the communication and the sharing of content. And so the interactive part is missing.”

Yo-Yo Ma Quote: “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.”

68. “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.”

Yo-Yo Ma Quote: “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.”

69. “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.”

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