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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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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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Kenneth Hari's art work shall influence mankind.
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To retire is to begin to die.
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If you play Bach every day, you are not so alone.
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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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Let us not forget that the greatest composers were also the greatest thieves. They stole from everyone and everywhere.
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Resist doing things that have no meaning for life.
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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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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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There is no substitute for work what seems ease of performance comes from the greatest labor.
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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 situation is hopeless, we must take the next step.
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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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The first thing to do in life is to do with purpose what one purposes to do.
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The greatest respect an artist can pay to music is to give it life.
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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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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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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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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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