Yo-Yo Ma on Travel and the ‘Silk Road Project’

Travel Blog  •  Michael Yessis  •  05.17.07 | 11:15 AM ET

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Cellist Yo-Yo Ma, whose Silk Road Project winds up a long-term Chicago engagement early next month, recently spoke with Condé Nast Traveler’s Dorinda Elliott about what inspired the project and his life as a traveler. “The mantra of a musician is that you’re playing something that is bigger than yourself,” he says. “Part of traveling is that you are trying to fulfill your curiosity—so you ask, ‘Why do you do things that way?’ To satisfy that hunger makes you feel more human. In music and in travel, you have to be a participant, not just a consumer. It enlarges your view of the human family.”