Pablo Casals Quotes
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.
To "retire" means to me to begin to die. The man who works and is never bored is never old. Work and interest in worthwhile things are the best remedy for age. Each day I am reborn. Each day I must begin again.
Music will save the world.
Man has made many machines, complex and cunning, but which of them indeed rivals the workings of his heart?
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.
The most perfect technique is that which is not noticed at all.
The heart of the melody can never be put down on paper.
You must work - we must all work to make the world worthy of its children.
I feel the capacity to care is the thing which gives life its deepest significance.
Let us not forget that the greatest composers were also the greatest thieves. They stole from everyone and everywhere.
The first thing to do in life is to do with purpose what one purposes to do.
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.
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.
The cello is like a beautiful woman who has not grown older, but younger with time, more slender, more supple, more graceful.
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.
This is the greatest honour I have ever received in my life. Peace has always been my greatest concern.
Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart.
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.
