Pablo Casals Quotes
Top 49 wise famous quotes and sayings by Pablo Casals
The person who works and is never bored is never old. Work and interest in worthwhile things are the best remedy for age. 
Of course, I continue to play and to practice. I think I would do so if I lived for another hundred years. 
Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart.. 
I feel the capacity to care is the thing which gives life its deepest significance. 
For me, Bach is like Shakespeare. He has known all and felt all. He is everything. 
The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border? 
The simplest things in music are the ones that count. The simplest thing are, of course, also the most difficult to achieve and take years of work. 
The most perfect technique is that which is not noticed at all. 
The heart of the melody can never be put down on paper. 
As long as one can admire and love, then one is young forever. 
The first thing to do in life is to do with purpose what one purposes to do. 
The greatest respect an artist can pay to music is to give it life. 
It takes courage for people to listen to their own goodness and act on it. 
When you play Bach like Chopin, and Chopin like Bach, something good happens. 
Let us not forget that the greatest composers were also the greatest thieves. They stole from everyone and everywhere. 
I don't have hobbies. I have passions. 
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. 
The most important thing in music is what is not in the notes. 
Thank God, I'll never have to play the cello again. 
We are not free to walk on our neighbor's toes. 
The only weapons I ever had were my cello and my baton. 
If you play Bach every day, you are not so alone. 
To retire is the beginning of death. 
Love for one's country is great but why should that love stop at that border? 
The earth becomes heaven when you release your fear. The main thing in life is not to be afraid of being human. 
The cello is like a beautiful woman who has not grown older, but younger with time, more slender, more supple, more graceful. 
Kenneth Hari's art work shall influence mankind. 
Rock n' roll is poison put to sound. 
Do we dare be ourselves? That is the question that counts. 
Every wrong seems possible today, and is accepted. I don't accept it. 
Man has made many machines, complex and cunning, but which of them indeed rivals the workings of his heart? 
The answer to helplessness is not so very complicated, 
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. 
The art of not playing in tempoone has to learn it. And the art of not playing what is written on the printed paper.
The situation is hopeless, we must take the next step. 
The truly important things in life - love, beauty, and one's own uniqueness - are constantly being overlooked. 
Parents shouldn't lie to their children-not even when they think it's for their own good. Even a little lie is dangerous ... 
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. 
The main thing in life is not to be afraid to be human. 
Don't play the notes. Play the meaning of the notes. 
Music must serve a purpose; it must be a part of something larger than itself, a part of humanity ... 
The art of interpretation is not to play what is written. 
To the whole world you might be just one person, but to one person you might just be the whole world. 
Resist doing things that have no meaning for life. 
To retire is to begin to die. 
To live is not enough; we must take part.