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With me being form the South, I wanted to make this album like a G Unit.
~ Young Buck
Album
Being
Form
Like
Make
Me
South
Unit
Wanted
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You won't really get a lot of the mainstream, lovey-dovey side because that wasn't a part of my life in the beginning.
~ Young Buck
Because
Beginning
Get
In The Beginning
Life
Lot
Mainstream
My Life
Part
Really
Side
You
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After reaching 50, I began to wonder what the root of life is.
~ Yo-Yo Ma
After
Began
Life
Reaching
Root
Wonder
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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.
~ Yo-Yo Ma
Based
Bring
Concerts
Connect
Each
Festivals
Grow
How
Idea
Innovation
Intact
Music
Musicians
Organically
Other
Our
Represent
See
Together
Tradition
Traditions
Who
Within
Workshops
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Good things happen when you meet strangers.
~ Yo-Yo Ma
Good
Good Things
Happen
Meet
Strangers
Things
Things Happen
You
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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
Back
Because
Bread
Bring
Home
Learn
Performing
Really
Same
Something
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Want
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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.
~ Yo-Yo Ma
Also
Being
Both
Exploration
Family
Family And Friends
Feel
Friends
Great
Grocery
Grocery Shopping
Home
I Love
I Think
Idea
Interests
Love
Makes
Me
Normal
Shopping
Think
Those
Totally
Two
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I'm not likely to forget where I've been and what I've done and learned. I think it's just as important to play new instruments as to play new pieces. The old ones are getting scarcer and the new ones more and more wonderful.
~ Yo-Yo Ma
Been
Done
Forget
Getting
I Think
Important
Instruments
Just
Learned
Likely
More
More And More
New
New Ones
Old
Old Ones
Pieces
Play
Think
Where
Wonderful
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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
Always
Answered
Away
Been
Come
Cultures
Head
Instruments
More
Musical
Over
People
Performing
Questions
Studying
Talking
Than
Traveling
World
Years
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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.
~ Yo-Yo Ma
Approaching
Became
Better
Beyond
Frightened
I Think
Infinitely
Knew
Less
Made
Me
Musician
New
New Ways
Person
Places
Richer
Scared
Something
Think
Thinking
Took
Totally
Way
Ways
Welcomed
Which
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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
Asians
Central
Chinese
Different
Had
Know
Many
Russian
Speak
Speaks
Ted
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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
Absorb
Always
Been
Certainly
Classical
Classical Music
Influences
Interests
Lot
Music
Over
People
Pick
Them
Up
Whatever
World
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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
Another
Deep
Grow
Idea
Issues
Lots
Members
Quartet
Second
Sign
Something
String
String Quartet
Take
Time
Trust
Way
Will
Within
You
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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.
~ Yo-Yo Ma
Aspects
Collaborating
Components
Directors
Film
Filmmakers
Five-Year
Interesting
Learned
Many
Most
Over
People
Period
Project
So Many People
Two
Writers
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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
Another
Another Way
Communicate
Concept
Content
Else
Execution
Full
Go
How
Learning
Lives
Make
Musician
Put
Really
Role
Somebody
Something
Sure
Understanding
Way
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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
Argentina
Became
Combination
Cultures
Eventually
Many
Music
National
Really
Tango
Though
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Things can fall apart, or threaten to, for many reasons, and then there's got to be a leap of faith. Ultimately, when you're at the edge, you have to go forward or backward; if you go forward, you have to jump together.
~ Yo-Yo Ma
Apart
Backward
Edge
Faith
Fall
Forward
Go
Got
Jump
Leap
Leap Of Faith
Many
Reasons
Then
Things
Threaten
Together
Ultimately
You
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We may be coming to a new golden age of instrument making.
~ Yo-Yo Ma
Age
Coming
Golden
Golden Age
Instrument
Making
May
New
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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
Accept
Build
Commitment
Culture
Gift
Learn
Lifelong
People
Preserve
Something
You
Your
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Because when you feel that you have arrived, you are dead.
~ Yul Brynner
Arrived
Because
Dead
Feel
You
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