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The only weapons I ever had were my cello and my baton.
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
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University Teacher
Pau Casals Abner Defilló
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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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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 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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Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart.
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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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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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Let us not forget that the greatest composers were also the greatest thieves. They stole from everyone and everywhere.
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There is no substitute for work what seems ease of performance comes from the greatest labor.
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Every wrong seems possible today, and is accepted. I don't accept it.
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When you play Bach like Chopin, and Chopin like Bach, something good happens.
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The greatest respect an artist can pay to music is to give it life.
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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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Music must serve a purpose it must be a part of something larger than itself, a part of humanity.
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Say things to the world that are true.
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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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To retire is the beginning of death.
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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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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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As long as one can admire and love, then one is young forever.
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