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" After reaching 50, I began to wonder what the root of life is. "
Yo-Yo Ma
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" Sound is ephemeral, fleeting, but some sort of a physical manifestation can help you hold on to it longer in time. I'm sure of this; I've always thought the sound that you make is just the tip of the iceberg, like the person that you see physically is just the tip of the iceberg as well. "
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" My involvement in the political arena is to make sure there's a place for culture. "
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" Once something is memorable, it's living and you're using it. That to me is the foundation of a creative society. "
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" I think that peace is, in many ways, a precondition of joy. "
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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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" A composition is always more than the sum of its parts. In other words, a really good piece of music is more than itself. It's sort of like a prism, which you can see from each facet a single totality. "
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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 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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" It's easy for me to care about Toronto, because Toronto is a community that cares about itself. It represents the world. It talks to itself, and because it does, it figures out that there must be a music garden as part of its existence. "
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" I think anybody who goes away finds you appreciate home more when you return. "
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" When we have a good balance between thinking and feeling... our actions and lives are always the richer for it. "
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" One of the things I love about music is live performance. "
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" Children, in a way, are constant learners. Certainly sponge-like. Absorbing everything without careful analysis, even though, at the same time, they are certainly capable of incredible insights. "
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" My job as a performer is to make sure that whatever happens in a performance lives in somebody else, that it's memorable... If you forget tomorrow what you heard yesterday, there's really not much point in you having been there - or me, for that matter. "
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" There's a part of me that's always charging ahead. I'm the curious kid, always going to the edge. "
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