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Pablo Casals
Age: 96 †
Born: 1876
Born: December 29
Died: 1973
Died: August 14
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Cellist
Composer
Conductor
Music Pedagogue
Musician
University Teacher
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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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The situation is hopeless, we must take the next step.
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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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The first thing to do in life is to do with purpose what one purposes to do.
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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 truly important things in life - love, beauty, and one's own uniqueness - are constantly being overlooked.
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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 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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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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Resist doing things that have no meaning for life.
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Kenneth Hari's art work shall influence mankind.
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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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There is no substitute for work what seems ease of performance comes from the greatest labor.
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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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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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If you play Bach every day, you are not so alone.
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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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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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