Pablo Casals

Rock n' roll is poison put to sound.

— Pablo Casals

To retire is to begin to die.

— Pablo Casals

Say things to the world that are true.

— Pablo Casals

I don't have hobbies. I have passions.

— Pablo Casals

To retire is to die.

— Pablo Casals

To retire is the beginning of death.

— Pablo Casals

Music will save the world.

— Pablo Casals

The situation is hopeless, we must take the next step.

— Pablo Casals

To live is not enough; we must take part.

— Pablo Casals

The answer to helplessness is not so very complicated,

— Pablo Casals

“The main thing in life is not to be afraid to be human.”

— Pablo Casals

Do we dare be ourselves? That is the question that counts.

— Pablo Casals

Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart.

— Pablo Casals

The first thing to do in life is to do with purpose what one purposes to do.

— Pablo Casals

The heart of the melody can never be put down on paper.

— Pablo Casals

For me, Bach is like Shakespeare. He has known all and felt all. He is everything.

— Pablo Casals

In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know…

— Pablo Casals

We ought to think that we are one of the leaves of a tree, and the tree is all humanity. We cannot…

— Pablo Casals

The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?

— Pablo Casals

I am an old man, but in many senses a very young man. And this is what I want you to be,…

— Pablo Casals

Don’t be vain because you happen to have talent. You are not responsible for that; it was not of your doing. What…

— Pablo Casals

I feel the capacity to care is the thing which gives life its deepest significance.

— Pablo Casals

The art of not playing in tempo--one has to learn it. And the art of not playing what is written on the…

— Pablo Casals

Bach is the supreme genius of music... This man, who knows everything and feels everything, cannot write one note, however unimportant it…

— Pablo Casals

“The CHILD must know that he is a MIRACLE, that since the beginning of the world there hasn’t been, and until the…

— Pablo Casals

Each person has inside a basic decency and goodness. If he listens to it and acts on it, he is giving a…

— Pablo Casals

When we play an unaccompanied Bach suite we may compare ourselves to an actor in Shakespeare's day, creating scenery which did not…

— Pablo Casals

Yes, it is true. I am a miracle. I am a miracle like a tree is a miracle, like a flower is…

— Pablo Casals

One should be able to say to our children: You are a marvel! You are unique. In all the world, there is…

— Pablo Casals

I am perhaps the oldest musician in the world. I am an old man but in many senses a very young man.…

— Pablo Casals

To strip human nature until its divine attributes are made clear, to inform ordinary activities with spiritual fervor, to give wings of…

— Pablo Casals

“Each second we live is a new and unique moment of the universe, a moment that will never be again And what…

— Pablo Casals

I was at Mount Tamalpais near San Francisco hiking when a boulder came hurling down the mountainside and smashed my left hand.…

— Pablo Casals

The miracle of Bach has not appeared in any other art. To strip human nature until its divine attributes are made clear,…

— Pablo Casals

To be a musician is a great privilege but it is also a very great responsibility. One must think that to be…

— Pablo Casals

For the past eighty years I have started each day in the same manner. It is not a mechanical routine, but something…

— Pablo Casals

The greatest respect an artist can pay to music is to give it life.

— Pablo Casals

Don't play the notes. Play the meaning of the notes.

— Pablo Casals

Kenneth Hari's art work shall influence mankind.

— Pablo Casals

You must work, we must all work, to make the world worthy of its children.

— Pablo Casals