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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
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Cellist
Composer
Conductor
Music Pedagogue
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University Teacher
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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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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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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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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 have always regarded manual labour as creative and looked with respect-and, yes, wonder-at people who work with their hands. It seems to me that their creativity is no less than that of a violinist or painter.
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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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To retire is to begin to die.
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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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Let us not forget that the greatest composers were also the greatest thieves. They stole from everyone and everywhere.
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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?
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As long as one can admire and love, then one is young forever.
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When you play Bach like Chopin, and Chopin like Bach, something good happens.
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Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart.
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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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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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If you play Bach every day, you are not so alone.
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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 art of interpretation is not to play what is written.
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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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