Pablo Casals Quotes

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• Don't play the notes. Play the meaning of the notes.

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  Play, Musical, Notes

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• 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 there will not be, another child like him.

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  Children, Miracle, World

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

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  Music, Beautiful, Heart

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border? There is a brotherhood among all men. This must be recognized if life is to remain. We must learn the love of man.

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  Love, Life, Country

  "Joys and Sorrows : Reflections‎ by Pablo Casals as told to Albert E. Kahn". Book by Albert E. Kahn, 1974.

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• 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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  Love, Relationship, Unique

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• To be a musician is a great privilege but it is also a very great responsibility. One must think that to be a musician is a gift - a gift from Nature. There is no great merit in us except in loving this gift with respect and devotion and doing everything possible to honor that gift by work and more work. We must work with conviction and humility, searching for beauty, simplicity, and the Truth. And it is for us musicians to do all in our power for a better world. Music must carry the message of beauty, of love and of peace.

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  Humility, Responsibility, Thinking

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

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  Music, Important, Notes

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• The miracle of Bach has not appeared in any other art. To strip human nature until its divine attributes are made clear, to inform ordinary activities with spiritual fervour, to give wings of eternity to that which is most ephemeral; to make divine things human and human things divine; such is Bach, the greatest and purest moment in music of all time.

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  Spiritual, Art, Wings

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• 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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  Children, Unique, Parent

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• 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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  Courage, Peace, Kindness

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Each second we live is a new and unique moment of the universe; a moment that never was before and never will be again.

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  Learning, Unique, Moments

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

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  Inspirational, Kindness, Caring

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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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  Worthwhile Things, Practice, Bored

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• 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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  Love You, Thinking, Long

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• 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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  Artist, Simple, Men

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• For the past eighty years I have started each day in the same manner. It is not a mechanical routine, but something essential to my daily life. I go to the piano, and play two preludes and fugues of Bach. I cannot think of doing otherwise. It is a sort of benediction on the house. But that is not its only meaning for me. It is a rediscovery of the world of which I have the joy of being a part. It fills me with awareness of the wonder of life, with a feeling of the incredible marvel of being a human being.

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  Past, Thinking, Years

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• There is no substitute for work; what seems ease of performance comes from the greatest labor.

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  Ease, Substitutes, Labor

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

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  Music, Humanity, Purpose

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• To live is not enough; we must take part.

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  Enough

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• You must work, we must all work, to make the world worthy of its children.

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  Motivational, Children, Helping Others

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

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  Courage, Healing, People

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• 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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  Real, Book, Men

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

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  Inspirational, Spiritual, Country

  "Joys and Sorrows : Reflections‎ by Pablo Casals as told to Albert E. Kahn". Book by Albert E. Kahn, 1974.

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• I was at Mount Tamalpais near San Francisco hiking when a boulder came hurling down the mountainside and smashed my left hand. When I looked at my mangled bloody fingers, I had a strange reaction. 'Thank God I will never have to play again,' I said. The fact is that dedication to one's art does involve a sort of enslavement.

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  Art, Work, Dedication

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

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  Felt, Known

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