Pablo Casals Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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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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“The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?”
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“The child must know that he is a miracle, that since the beginning of the...”
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“It takes courage for people to listen to their own goodness and act on it.”
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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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“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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“The greatest respect an artist can pay to music is to give it life.”
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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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“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 heart of the melody can never be put down on paper.”
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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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“The miracle of Bach has not appeared in any other art. To strip human nature until its divine attributes are made clear, to inform ordinary activities with spiritual fervour, to give wings of eternity to that which is most ephemeral; to make divine things human and human things divine; such is Bach, the greatest and purest moment in music of all time.”
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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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“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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“You must work, we must all work, to make the world worthy of its children.”
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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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“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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“What do we teach our children? . . . We should say to each of them: Do you know what you are? You are a marvel. You are unique . . . You may become a Shakespeare, a Michelangelo, a Beethoven. You have the capacity for anything.”
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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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“Man has made many machines, complex and cunning, but which of them indeed rivals the workings of his heart?”
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“Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart.”
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“Don't play the notes. Play the meaning of the notes.”
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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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“Of course, I continue to play and to practice. I think I would do so if I lived for another hundred years.”
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