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… — Pablo Casals Copy Share Image
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… — Pablo Casals Copy Share Image
I was at Mount Tamalpais near San Francisco hiking when a boulder came hurling down the mountainside and smashed my left hand. When I… — Pablo Casals Copy Share Image
“Love for one's country is great but why should that love stop at that border?” — Pablo Casals Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I am perhaps the oldest musician in the world. I am an old man but in many senses a very young man. And this… — Pablo Casals Copy Share Image
For the past eighty years I have started each day in the same manner... I go to the piano, and I play preludes and… — Pablo Casals Copy Share Image
You must work, we must all work, to make the world worthy of its children. — Pablo Casals Copy Share Image
Each second we live is a new and unique moment of the universe; a moment that never was before and never will be again. — Pablo Casals Copy Share Image
