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The first thing to do in life is to do with purpose what one purposes to do.
Pablo Casals
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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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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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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 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.
Pablo Casals
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 most perfect technique is that which is not noticed at all.
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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 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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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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The situation is hopeless, we must take the next step.
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Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart.
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If you play Bach every day, you are not so alone.
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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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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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Every wrong seems possible today, and is accepted. I don't accept it.
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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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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.
Pablo Casals
The greatest respect an artist can pay to music is to give it life.
Pablo Casals
To retire is to begin to die.
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