I have always regarded manual labour as creative and looked with respect-and, yes, wonder-at people who work with their hands. It seems to me that their creativity is no less than that of a violinist or painter. — Pablo Casals Copy Share Image
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… — 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
