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When you play Bach like Chopin, and Chopin like Bach, something good happens.
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
Pau Casals Abner Defilló
Pau Casals Abner Defillo
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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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Say things to the world that are true.
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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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To retire is to begin to die.
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The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border? There is a brotherhood among all men. This must be recognized if life is to remain. We must learn the love of man.
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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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The greatest respect an artist can pay to music is to give it life.
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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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The only weapons I ever had were my cello and my baton.
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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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As long as one can admire and love, then one is young forever.
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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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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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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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