Yo-Yo Ma Quotes About Culture

Quotes about: Culture

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

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  Argentina, Culture, Combination

• Our cultural strength has always been derived from our diversity of understanding and experience.

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  Strength, Diversity, Understanding

• 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.

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  Commitment, People, Brotherhood

• A Senegalese poet said 'In the end we will conserve only what we love. We love only what we understand, and we will understand only what we are taught.' We must learn about other cultures in order to understand, in order to love, and in order to preserve our common world heritage.

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  Order, Other Cultures, Community

• Culture opens our hearts to one another. And the currency in culture is not money, but trust.

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  Heart, Culture, Currency

• My involvement in the political arena is to make sure there's a place for culture.

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  Political, Culture, Arena

• 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.

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  Talking, Years, People

• I want to investigate different cultures, to see how their identities and values affect their music. It's one way I can get to know our world, at least to a certain depth.

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  Our World, Identity, Depth

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