Pablo Casals Music Quotes

#1. Music will save the world.

Pablo Casals

#2. Throughout my career, nervousness and stage-fright have never left me before playing. And each of the thousands of concerts I have played at, I feel as bad as I did the very first time.

Pablo Casals

#3. For the Three Percent:
You may sometimes feel
like you were born in the wrong century,
or that the struggle for freedom is already lost,
but you weren't, and it isn't.
Your day is coming.
Now is the time to prepare.

Oliver DeMille

#4. Bach is the supreme genius of music ... This man, who knows everything and feels everything, cannot write one note, however unimportant it may appear, which is anything but transcendent. He has reached the heart of every noble thought, and has done it

Pablo Casals

#5. The most important thing in music is what is not in the notes.

Pablo Casals

#6. In music, in the sea, in a flower, in a leaf, in an act of kindness ... I see what people call God in all these things.

Pablo Casals

#7. The devil only exists because of your belief in him; same goes for that other guy.

Sage Francis

#8. The greatest respect an artist can pay to music is to give it life.

Pablo Casals

#9. I haven't written anything in four years. I'm sort of dried up.

Thom Gunn

#10. The past can never change but future is still in your power

Azhar Sabri

#11. Real understanding does not come from what we learn in books; it comes from what we learn from love of nature, of music, of man. For only what is learned in that way is truly understood.

Pablo Casals

#12. I see in the melody of Nature, God. It is a wonderful work of art. The spirit of the art is wonderful. And I feel that I am myself because I have never taken music lightly. Music is the manifestation of God, like everything else.

Pablo Casals

#13. The cello is like a beautiful woman who has not grown older, but younger with time, more slender, more supple, more graceful.

Pablo Casals

#14. Try everything that can be done. Be deliberate. Be spontaneous. Be thoughtful and painstaking. Be abandoned and impulsive. Learn your own possibilities.

George Bellows

#15. Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart..

Pablo Casals

#16. Dictionary Definition of Delicacy 1. The quality or condition of being delicate, fragile, or sensitive. 2. Discretion, tact.

David Foenkinos

#17. Foolishness is indeed the sister of wickedness.

Sophocles

#18. I ran home in the moonlight with firm strides; for the sun-love made me strong.

John Muir

#19. How could anybody think of Bach as 'cold' when these [cello] suites seem to shine with the most glittering kind of poetry," Casals said. "As I got on with the study I discovered a new world of space and beauty ... the feelings I experienced were among the purest and most intense in my artistic life!

Pablo Casals

#20. Valuing the road over the goal was a Taoist goal in itself.

Evan Osnos

#21. Music must serve a purpose; it must be a part of something larger than itself, a part of humanity ...

Pablo Casals

#22. She rolled over and stretched, blinking up at the blue sky. The tips of the long grasses swished gently in the breeze. The hot sun pressed down on her so that she felt hot and empty. Slowly, the meadow began to fulfill its promise.

Elizabeth George Speare

#23. It was any combination of a thousand things, she told herself, but it wasn't love. And

Nicholas Sparks

#24. I was disappointed in everything - my start and the team's start. People got down on me, but I never got down on myself. I still believed I could be the type of player everyone, including me, thought I was going to be.

Eric Davis

#25. The simplest things in music are the ones that count. The simplest thing are, of course, also the most difficult to achieve and take years of work.

Pablo Casals

#26. When we play an unaccompanied Bach suite we may compare ourselves to an actor in Shakespeare's day, creating scenery which did not exist at all, through the power of declamation and suggestion. So in Bach. There is but one voice
and many voices have to be suggested.

Pablo Casals

#27. I am a very simple man. I am a man first, an artist second. My first obligation is to the welfare of my fellow man. I will endeavour to meet this obligation through music, since it transcends language, politics and national boundaries.

Pablo Casals