Pablo Casals Quotes - Page 2

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• 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 in the most perfect way.

  Pablo Casals

  Writing, Heart, Men

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

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

  Pablo Casals

  Courage, Healing, People

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• 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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  Music, Kindness, Philosophy

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

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  Enough

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• To retire is to begin to die.

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  Retirement, Retiring, Dies

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

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• 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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  Past, Years, Play

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

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  Art, Perfect, Political

  Quoted in Julian Lloyd Webber The Song of the Birds (1985).

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

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  Heart, Paper, Melody

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

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

  Pablo Casals

  Play, Ifs

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• 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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  Thinking, Diversity, Tree

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

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  Love, Long, Forever

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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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• Rock n' roll is poison put to sound.

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  Rocks, Sound, Poison

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• 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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  Years, Achieve, Difficult

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

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  Healing, Teens, Dare

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

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  Inspirational Life, Love Life, Love Is

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

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  Integrity, Today, Ethics

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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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• Resist doing things that have no meaning for life.

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

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  Play, Happens

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• 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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  Thinking, Miracle, Looks

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