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Yo-Yo Ma

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Good things happen when you meet strangers.


— Yo-Yo Ma


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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.


— Yo-Yo Ma


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


— Yo-Yo Ma


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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.


— Yo-Yo Ma


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I think of a piece of music as something that comes alive when it is being performed, and I feel that my role in the transmission of music is to be its best advocate at that moment.


— Yo-Yo Ma


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Jazz has been such a force in music, that any musician, including classical composers, have been influenced, and obviously performers, also.


— Yo-Yo Ma


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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


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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


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


— Yo-Yo Ma


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The tango is really a combination of many cultures, though it eventually became the national music of Argentina.


— Yo-Yo Ma


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About Yo-Yo Ma

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Did you know about Yo-Yo Ma?

The orchestra conducted by Zubin Mehta performed in Central Park. Eisenhower and John F. Harper a noted fan of The Beatles played the piano and sang a rendition of "With A Little Help From My Friends" while Ma accompanied him on his cello.

He has received multiple Grammy Awards the National Medal of Arts in 2001 and the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2011. Yo-Yo Ma (born October 7 1955) is an Americancellist and virtuoso.

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