Pablo Casals
Music will save the world.Collection: Music
The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?Collection: Patriotism
Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart.Collection: Music
Each person has inside a basic decency and goodness. If he listens to it and acts on it, he is giving a great deal of what it is the world needs most. It is not complicated but it takes courage. It takes courage for a person to listen to his own goodness and act on it.Collection: Courage
The heart of the melody can never be put down on paper.
The child must know that he is a miracle, that since the beginning of the world there hasn't been, and until the end of the world there will not be, another child like him.
I feel the capacity to care is the thing which gives life its deepest significance.
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.
To retire is to begin to die.
The most perfect technique is that which is not noticed at all.
Let us not forget that the greatest composers were also the greatest thieves. They stole from everyone and everywhere.
I am perhaps the oldest musician in the world. 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, and to say things to the world that are true.
You must work - we must all work to make the world worthy of its children.
The art of interpretation is not to play what is written.
Man has made many machines, complex and cunning, but which of them indeed rivals the workings of his heart?
The first thing to do in life is to do with purpose what one purposes to do.
To retire is to die.
Don't play the notes. Play the meaning of the notes.Collection: Play
The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border? There is a brotherhood among all men. This must be recognized if life is to remain. We must learn the love of man.Collection: Love
To be a musician is a great privilege but it is also a very great responsibility. One must think that to be a musician is a gift - a gift from Nature. There is no great merit in us except in loving this gift with respect and devotion and doing everything possible to honor that gift by work and more work. We must work with conviction and humility, searching for beauty, simplicity, and the Truth. And it is for us musicians to do all in our power for a better world. Music must carry the message of beauty, of love and of peace.Collection: Humility
To the whole world you might be just one person, but to one person you might just be the whole world.Collection: Love
What do we teach our children? . . . We should say to each of them: Do you know what you are? You are a marvel. You are unique . . . You may become a Shakespeare, a Michelangelo, a Beethoven. You have the capacity for anything.Collection: Children
The miracle of Bach has not appeared in any other art. To strip human nature until its divine attributes are made clear, to inform ordinary activities with spiritual fervour, to give wings of eternity to that which is most ephemeral; to make divine things human and human things divine; such is Bach, the greatest and purest moment in music of all time.Collection: Spiritual
I don't have hobbies. I have passions.Collection: Work
Each second we live is a new and unique moment of the universe; a moment that never was before and never will be again.Collection: Learning
The person who works and is never bored is never old. Work and interest in worthwhile things are the best remedy for age.Collection: Worthwhile Things
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.Collection: Real
I used to think that eighty was a very old age. Now I am ninety. I do not think this any more. As long as you are able to admire and to love, you are young.Collection: Love You
The most important thing in music is what is not in the notes.Collection: Music
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.Collection: Past
Music must serve a purpose; it must be a part of something larger than itself, a part of humanity.Collection: Music
There is no substitute for work; what seems ease of performance comes from the greatest labor.Collection: Ease
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.Collection: Music
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.Collection: Artist
To live is not enough; we must take part.Collection: Enough
It takes courage for people to listen to their own goodness and act on it.Collection: Courage
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.Collection: Beauty
The only weapons I ever had were my cello and my baton.Collection: Weapons
Parents shouldn't lie to their children-not even when they think it's for their own good. Even a little lie is dangerous.Collection: Children
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 in its entirety.Collection: Years
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. . . .Collection: Flower
One should be able to say to our children: You are a marvel! You are unique. In all the world, there is no other child exactly like you. In the millions of years that have passed, there has never been another child like you! ... and when you grow up, can you harm another who is, like you, a marvel?Collection: Children
We are not free to walk on our neighbor's toes.Collection: Freedom
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.Collection: Music
Kenneth Hari's art work shall influence mankind.Collection: Art
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.Collection: Integrity
Say things to the world that are true.Collection: Truth
You do not lose your value or preciousness when you grow to be a adult. You are still that miraculous creation. You must work, we must all work, to make the world worthy of its children.Collection: Children
The earth becomes heaven when you release your fear. The main thing in life is not to be afraid of being human.Collection: Fear
Thank God, I'll never have to play the cello again.Collection: Play