Quotes from Pablo Casals

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

To the whole world you might be just one person, but to one person you might just be the whole world.

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 will not be, another child like him.

To live is not enough; we must take part.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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 will save the world.

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 with your talent is what matters.

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

Every wrong seems possible today, and is accepted. I don't accept it.

the love of ones country is a slended thing but why should love stop at the border.

Love for one's country is great but why should that love stop at that border?

On my last birthday I was ninety-three years old. That is not young, of course. In fact, it is older than ninety. But age is a relative matter. If you continue to work and to absorb the beauty in the world about you, you find that age does not necessarily mean getting old. At least, not in the ordinary sense. I feel many things more intensely than ever before, and for me life grows more fascinating.

When we play an unaccompanied Bach suite we may compare ourselves to an actor in Shakespeare's day, creating scenery which did not exist at all, through the power of declamation and suggestion. So in Bach. There is but one voice -- and many voices have to be suggested.

Each second we live is a new and unique moment of the universe a moment that never was before and never will be again

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

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

It takes courage for a man to listen to his own goodness and act on it. Do we dare to be ourselves? That is that question that counts.