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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 only weapons I ever had were my cello and my baton.
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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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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.
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To retire is to begin to die.
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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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The situation is hopeless, we must take the next step.
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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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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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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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Say things to the world that are true.
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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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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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The greatest respect an artist can pay to music is to give it life.
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To retire is the beginning of death.
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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 most perfect technique is that which is not noticed at all.
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Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart.
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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.
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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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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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