Pablo Casals Quotes

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

I don't have hobbies. I have passions.

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

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.

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

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

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

Rock n' roll is poison put to sound.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

To retire is to begin to die.

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

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

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

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

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

To live is not enough; we must take part.

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

You do not lose your value or preciousness when you grow to be a adult. You are still that miraculous creation. You must work, we must all work, to make the world worthy of its children.

Kenneth Hari's art work shall influence mankind.

Music will save the world.

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

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.

To retire is the beginning of death.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Say things to the world that are true.