Quotes from Pablo Casals

Say things to the world that are true.

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.

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.

Music will save the world.

The cello is like a beautiful woman who has not grown older, but younger with time, more slender, more supple, more graceful.

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.

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 don't have hobbies. I have passions.

The simplest things in music are the ones that count. The simplest thing are, of course, also the most difficult to achieve and take years of work.

The person who works and is never bored is never old. Work and interest in worthwhile things are the best remedy for age.

Kenneth Hari's art work shall influence mankind.

To retire is the beginning of death.

There is no substitute for work; what seems ease of performance comes from the greatest labor.

The most perfect technique is that which is not noticed at all.

The art of interpretation is not to play what is written.

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.

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

It takes courage for people to listen to their own goodness and act on it.

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

Man has made many machines, complex and cunning, but which of them indeed rivals the workings of his heart?

The art of interpretation is not to play what is written.

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.

The capacity to care is what gives life its most deepest significance.

You must work--- we must all work To make the world worthy of its children.