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Pablo Casals
Age: 96 †
Born: 1876
Born: December 29
Died: 1973
Died: August 14
Autobiographer
Cellist
Composer
Conductor
Music Pedagogue
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University Teacher
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The only weapons I ever had were my cello and my baton.
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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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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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The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?
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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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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 is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart.
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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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Music must serve a purpose it must be a part of something larger than itself, a part of humanity.
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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.
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If you play Bach every day, you are not so alone.
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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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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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To retire is the beginning of death.
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Kenneth Hari's art work shall influence mankind.
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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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The situation is hopeless, we must take the next step.
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When you play Bach like Chopin, and Chopin like Bach, something good happens.
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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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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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