Pablo Casals Quotes
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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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To retire is to begin to die.
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Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart.
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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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Music will save the world.
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The heart of the melody can never be put down on paper.
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I feel the capacity to care is the thing which gives life its deepest significance.
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The child must know that he is a miracle, that since the beginning of the world there hasn't been, and until the end of the world there will not be, another child like him.
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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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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 most perfect technique is that which is not noticed at all.
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I am perhaps the oldest musician in the world. 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, and to say things to the world that are true.
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Man has made many machines, complex and cunning, but which of them indeed rivals the workings of his heart?
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You must work - we must all work to make the world worthy of its children.
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The art of interpretation is not to play what is written.
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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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Each person has inside a basic decency and goodness. If he listens to it and acts on it, he is giving a great deal of what it is the world needs most. It is not complicated but it takes courage. It takes courage for a person to listen to his own goodness and act on it.
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To retire is to die.
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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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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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For twelve years I studied and worked at them every day, and I was nearly 25 before I had the courage to play one of them in public. Before I did, no violinist or cellist had ever played a Suite in its entirety.
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Do we dare to be ourselves?' This is the question that counts - and not, 'Must a man be helpless?' ...A man can do something for peace without having to jump into politics.
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One should be able to say to our children: You are a marvel! You are unique. In all the world, there is no other child exactly like you. In the millions of years that have passed, there has never been another child like you! ... and when you grow up, can you harm another who is, like you, a marvel?
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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. . . .