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“The person who works and is never bored is never old. Work and interest in worthwhile things are the best remedy for age.”
-- Pablo Casals
#Practice #Bored #Age
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“If you play Bach every day, you are not so alone.”
-- Pablo Casals
#Play
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“I don't have hobbies. I have passions.”
-- Pablo Casals
#Passion #Hobbies
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“For the past eighty years I have started each day in the same manner... I go to the piano, and I play preludes and fugues of Bach... It is a sort of benediction on the house.”
-- Pablo Casals
#Past #Years #Play
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“What do we teach our children? We teach them that two and two make four, and that Paris is the capital of France. When will we also teach them what they are?”
-- Pablo Casals
#Children #Two #Paris
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“Parents shouldn't lie to their children-not even when they think it's for their own good. Even a little lie is dangerous ...”
-- Pablo Casals
#Children #Lying #Thinking
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“We are not free to walk on our neighbor's toes.”
-- Pablo Casals
#Freedom #Toes #Neighbor
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“For the past eighty years I have started each day in the same manner. It is not a mechanical routine, but something essential to my daily life. I go to the piano, and play two preludes and fugues of Bach. I cannot think of doing otherwise. It is a sort of benediction on the house. But that is not its only meaning for me. It is a rediscovery of the world of which I have the joy of being a part. It fills me with awareness of the wonder of life, with a feeling of the incredible marvel of being a human being.”
-- Pablo Casals
#Past #Thinking #Years
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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. . . .”
-- Pablo Casals
#Flower #Miracle #Tree
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“Beauty is all about us, but how many are blind! They look at the wonder of this earth and seem to see nothing. People move hectically but give little thought to where they are going. They seek excitement...as if they were lost and desperate.”
-- Pablo Casals
#Beauty #Moving #Giving
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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.”
-- Pablo Casals
#Men #Dare #Helpless
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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.”
-- Pablo Casals
#Music #Careers #Firsts
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“The most important thing in music is what is not in the notes.”
-- Pablo Casals
#Music #Important #Notes
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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.”
-- Pablo Casals
#Simple #Men #Artist
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“I was at Mount Tamalpais near San Francisco hiking when a boulder came hurling down the mountainside and smashed my left hand. When I looked at my mangled bloody fingers, I had a strange reaction. 'Thank God I will never have to play again,' I said. The fact is that dedication to one's art does involve a sort of enslavement.”
-- Pablo Casals
#Art #Work #Dedication
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“Music must serve a purpose; it must be a part of something larger than itself, a part of humanity...”
-- Pablo Casals
#Music #Humanity #Purpose
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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.”
-- Pablo Casals
#Fear #Heaven #Earth
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“As long as one can admire and love, then one is young forever.”
-- Pablo Casals
#Love #Long #Forever
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“The art of not playing in tempo--one has to learn it. And the art of not playing what is written on the printed paper.”
-- Pablo Casals
#Art #Paper #Tempo
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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.”
-- Pablo Casals
#Music #Kindness #Philosophy
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“Rock n' roll is poison put to sound.”
-- Pablo Casals
#Rocks #Poison #Rock N Roll
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“Real understanding does not come from what we learn in books; it comes from what we learn from love of nature, of music, of man. For only what is learned in that way is truly understood.”
-- Pablo Casals
#Real #Book #Men
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“To live is not enough; we must take part.”
-- Pablo Casals
#Enough
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“Let us not forget that the greatest composers were also the greatest thieves. They stole from everyone and everywhere.”
-- Pablo Casals
#Thieves #Originality #Forget
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“The art of interpretation is not to play what is written.”
-- Pablo Casals
#Art #Play #Interpretation
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“To retire is the beginning of death.”
-- Pablo Casals
#Aging #Retiring
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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”
-- Pablo Casals
#Writing #Heart #Men
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“When we play an unaccompanied Bach suite we may compare ourselves to an actor in Shakespeare's day, creating scenery which did not exist at all, through the power of declamation and suggestion. So in Bach. There is but one voice -- and many voices have to be suggested.”
-- Pablo Casals
#Play #Voice #Creating
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“The answer to helplessness is not so very complicated,”
-- Pablo Casals
#Answers #Complicated #Helplessness
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“The only weapons I ever had were my cello and my baton.”
-- Pablo Casals
#Weapons
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