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

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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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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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Resist doing things that have no meaning for life.
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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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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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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 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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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 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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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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When you play Bach like Chopin, and Chopin like Bach, something good happens.
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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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There is no substitute for work what seems ease of performance comes from the greatest labor.
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The situation is hopeless, we must take the next step.
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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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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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Kenneth Hari's art work shall influence mankind.
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Every wrong seems possible today, and is accepted. I don't accept it.
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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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