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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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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 greatest respect an artist can pay to music is to give it life.
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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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I don't have hobbies. I have passions.
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The situation is hopeless, we must take the next step.
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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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As long as one can admire and love, then one is young forever.
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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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There is no substitute for work what seems ease of performance comes from the greatest labor.
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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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Every wrong seems possible today, and is accepted. I don't accept it.
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Say things to the world that are true.
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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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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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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 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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The art of interpretation is not to play what is written.
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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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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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To retire is the beginning of death.
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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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