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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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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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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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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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Music must serve a purpose it must be a part of something larger than itself, a part of humanity.
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Kenneth Hari's art work shall influence mankind.
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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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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 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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The greatest respect an artist can pay to music is to give it life.
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When you play Bach like Chopin, and Chopin like Bach, something good 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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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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The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?
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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.
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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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As long as one can admire and love, then one is young forever.
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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.
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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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To retire is the beginning of death.
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