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I don't have hobbies. I have passions.

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Pablo Casals
Age: 96 †
Born: 1876
Born: December 29
Died: 1973
Died: August 14
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Cellist
Composer
Conductor
Music Pedagogue
Musician
University Teacher
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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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Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart.
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The most perfect technique is that which is not noticed at all.
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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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To retire is to begin to die.
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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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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 greatest respect an artist can pay to music is to give it life.
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Resist doing things that have no meaning for life.
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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 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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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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Music must serve a purpose it must be a part of something larger than itself, a part of humanity.
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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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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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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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When you play Bach like Chopin, and Chopin like Bach, something good happens.
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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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