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

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Pablo Casals
Age: 96 †
Born: 1876
Born: December 29
Died: 1973
Died: August 14
Autobiographer
Cellist
Composer
Conductor
Music Pedagogue
Musician
University Teacher
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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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There is no substitute for work what seems ease of performance comes from the greatest labor.
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To retire is the beginning of death.
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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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Music must serve a purpose it must be a part of something larger than itself, a part of humanity.
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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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The earth becomes heaven when you release your fear. The main thing in life is not to be afraid of being human.
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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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Let us not forget that the greatest composers were also the greatest thieves. They stole from everyone and everywhere.
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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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I don't have hobbies. I have passions.
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Say things to the world that are true.
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As long as one can admire and love, then one is young forever.
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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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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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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.
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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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The truly important things in life - love, beauty, and one's own uniqueness - are constantly being overlooked.
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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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The art of interpretation is not to play what is written.
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