Top 73 Pablo Casals Quotes: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Pablo Casals

#1. Pablo Casals has this simple and sincere attitude of knowing where it's at - of saying, "This is the way it is." If I thought I could carry some of that into my life, I would be happy.

Leonard Nimoy

#2. Pablo Casals is a great musician in all he does: a cellist without equal, and extraordinary conductor and composer with something to say. I have been profoundly impressed by all I have heard of his work, but he is a musician of this stature because he is also a great man.

Albert Schweitzer

#3. I listened to Pablo Casals, which was a big change for me. Without hearing Casals, I would never have advanced as I did.

Mstislav Rostropovich

#4. The situation is hopeless, we must take the next step.

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#5. The most perfect technique is that which is not noticed at all.

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#6. If you play Bach every day, you are not so alone.

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#7. 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.

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#8. 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.

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#9. What do we teach our children? ... We should say to each of them: Do you know what you are? You are a marvel. You are unique ... You may become a Shakespeare, a Michelangelo, a Beethoven. You have the capacity for anything.

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

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#11. Music will save the world.

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#12. The heart of the melody can never be put down on paper.

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#13. Let us not forget that the greatest composers were also the greatest thieves. They stole from everyone and everywhere.

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#14. Do we dare be ourselves? That is the question that counts.

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#15. The truly important things in life - love, beauty, and one's own uniqueness - are constantly being overlooked.

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#16. To live is not enough; we must take part.

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#17. The person who works and is never bored is never old. Work and interest in worthwhile things are the best remedy for age.

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#18. I am perhaps the oldest musician in the world. I am an old man but in many senses a very young man. And this is what I want you to be, young, young all your life, and to say things to the world that are true.

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#19. When you play Bach like Chopin, and Chopin like Bach, something good happens.

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#20. For me, Bach is like Shakespeare. He has known all and felt all. He is everything.

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#21. Resist doing things that have no meaning for life.

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#22. Kenneth Hari's art work shall influence mankind.

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#23. Man has made many machines, complex and cunning, but which of them indeed rivals the workings of his heart?

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#24. Love for one's country is great but why should that love stop at that border?

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#25. 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.

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#26. 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

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#27. Beauty is all about us, but how many are blind! They look at the wonder of this earth and seem to see nothing. People move hectically but give little thought to where they are going. They seek excitement ... as if they were lost and desperate.

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#28. Do we dare to be ourselves?' This is the question that counts - and not, 'Must a man be helpless?' ... A man can do something for peace without having to jump into politics.

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#29. To retire is to die.

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

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#31. Don't play the notes. Play the meaning of the notes.

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#32. For the past eighty years I have started each day in the same manner ... I go to the piano, and I play preludes and fugues of Bach ... It is a sort of benediction on the house.

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#33. The art of not playing in tempo
one has to learn it. And the art of not playing what is written on the printed paper.

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#34. Thank God, I'll never have to play the cello again.

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#35. As long as one can admire and love, then one is young forever.

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#36. 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.

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

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#38. The art of interpretation is not to play what is written.

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#39. I do not think a day passes in my life in which I fail to look with fresh amazement at the miracle of nature.

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#40. I used to think that eighty was a very old age. Now I am ninety. I do not think this any more. As long as you are able to admire and to love, you are young.

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#41. To retire is the beginning of death.

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#42. Yes, it is true. I am a miracle. I am a miracle like a tree is a miracle, like a flower is a miracle. Now, if I am a miracle, can I do a bad thing? I can't, because I am a miracle, I am a miracle ...

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#43. 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.

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#44. Every wrong seems possible today, and is accepted. I don't accept it.

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#45. I feel the capacity to care is the thing which gives life its deepest significance.

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#46. 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.

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#47. 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.

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#48. We ought to think that we are one of the leaves of a tree, and the tree is all humanity. We cannot live without the others, without the tree.

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#49. For twelve years I studied and worked at them every day, and I was nearly 25 before I had the courage to play one of them in public. Before I did, no violinist or cellist had ever played a Suite in its entirety.

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#50. The answer to helplessness is not so very complicated,

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#51. The only weapons I ever had were my cello and my baton.

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

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#53. The first thing to do in life is to do with purpose what one purposes to do.

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#54. Each person has inside a basic decency and goodness. If he listens to it and acts on it, he is giving a great deal of what it is the world needs most. It is not complicated but it takes courage. It takes courage for a person to listen to his own goodness and act on it.

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#55. We are not free to walk on our neighbor's toes.

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#56. Rock n' roll is poison put to sound.

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#57. To the whole world you might be just one person, but to one person you might just be the whole world.

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#58. 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!

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#59. Parents shouldn't lie to their children-not even when they think it's for their own good. Even a little lie is dangerous ...

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#60. Of course, I continue to play and to practice. I think I would do so if I lived for another hundred years.

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#61. It takes courage for people to listen to their own goodness and act on it.

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#62. The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?

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#63. What do we teach our children? We teach them that two and two make four, and that Paris is the capital of France. When will we also teach them what they are?

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#64. The CHILD must know that he is a MIRACLE, that since the beginning of the world there hasn't been, and until the end of the world will not be, another child like him.

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#65. Don't be vain because you happen to have talent. You are not responsible for that; it was not of your doing. What you do with your talent is what matters.

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#66. The main thing in life is not to be afraid to be human.

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#67. One should be able to say to our children: You are a marvel! You are unique. In all the world, there is no other child exactly like you. In the millions of years that have passed, there has never been another child like you! ... and when you grow up, can you harm another who is, like you, a marvel?

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#68. I have always regarded manual labour as creative and looked with respect-and, yes, wonder-at people who work with their hands. It seems to me that their creativity is no less than that of a violinist or painter.

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