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To retire is the beginning of death.
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
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Conductor
Music Pedagogue
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University Teacher
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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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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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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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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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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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As long as one can admire and love, then one is young forever.
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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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The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?
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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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If you play Bach every day, you are not so alone.
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Say things to the world that are true.
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Every wrong seems possible today, and is accepted. I don't accept it.
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The only weapons I ever had were my cello and my baton.
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There is no substitute for work what seems ease of performance comes from the greatest labor.
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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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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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The greatest respect an artist can pay to music is to give it life.
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To retire is to begin to die.
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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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