Best 65 quotes of Pablo Casals on MyQuotes

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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!

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Kenneth Hari's art work shall influence mankind.

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

Music will save the world.

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

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?

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

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.

Rock n' roll is poison put to sound.

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

The answer to helplessness is not so very complicated.

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

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.

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

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 earth becomes heaven when you release your fear. The main thing in life is not to be afraid of being human.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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