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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. . . .

Pablo Casals

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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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As long as one can admire and love, then one is young forever.
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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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There is no substitute for work what seems ease of performance comes from the greatest labor.
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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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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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The greatest respect an artist can pay to music is to give it life.
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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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Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart.
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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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The situation is hopeless, we must take the next step.
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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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Resist doing things that have no meaning for life.
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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 truly important things in life - love, beauty, and one's own uniqueness - are constantly being overlooked.
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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 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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The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?
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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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