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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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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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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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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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To retire is to begin to die.
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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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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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I don't have hobbies. I have passions.
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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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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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The first thing to do in life is to do with purpose what one purposes to do.
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Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart.
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The art of interpretation is not to play what is written.
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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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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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The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?
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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? 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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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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When you play Bach like Chopin, and Chopin like Bach, something good happens.
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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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