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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.

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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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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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 art of interpretation is not to play what is written.
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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 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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I don't have hobbies. I have passions.
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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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Let us not forget that the greatest composers were also the greatest thieves. They stole from everyone and everywhere.
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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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When you play Bach like Chopin, and Chopin like Bach, something good happens.
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The situation is hopeless, we must take the next step.
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If you play Bach every day, you are not so alone.
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Kenneth Hari's art work shall influence mankind.
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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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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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To retire is to begin to die.
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Resist doing things that have no meaning for life.
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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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The only weapons I ever had were my cello and my baton.
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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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