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If you play Bach every day, you are not so alone.

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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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Bach
Alone
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The greatest respect an artist can pay to music is to give it 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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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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Every wrong seems possible today, and is accepted. I don't accept it.
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To retire is the beginning of death.
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The only weapons I ever had were my cello and my baton.
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As long as one can admire and love, then one is young forever.
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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 situation is hopeless, we must take the next step.
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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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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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I don't have hobbies. I have passions.
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The most perfect technique is that which is not noticed at all.
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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 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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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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Say things to the world that are true.
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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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