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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
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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 most perfect technique is that which is not noticed at all.
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Every wrong seems possible today, and is accepted. I don't accept it.
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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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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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As long as one can admire and love, then one is young forever.
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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 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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There is no substitute for work what seems ease of performance comes from the greatest labor.
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The art of interpretation is not to play what is written.
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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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Say things to the world that are true.
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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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The greatest respect an artist can pay to music is to give it life.
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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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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 don't have hobbies. I have passions.
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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 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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