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	"I'm 45 years old and I've been playing since I was 15, professionally since I was about 20. I've spent at least 12 and a half years of my life traveling, and one thing that's very depressing and that I'm determined to avoid is not being able to remember what I did in the course of a year." - -- Yo yo ma

Top 5 quotes from Yo yo ma

"Working with Ton Koopman's Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra and its fabulous players was a great opportunity for me, and the repertoire is so rich and beautiful, I want to continue to play it."
"But an innovation, to grow organically from within, has to be based on an intact tradition, so our idea is to bring together musicians who represent all these traditions, in workshops, festivals, and concerts, to see how we can connect with each other in music."
"Everything has a beginning somewhere and one thing leads to another, though they may not seem connected: from Bach to Baroque to Appalachian folk fiddling . Actually, those have some common elements."
"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."
"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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