Quotes by Pablo Casals

“Music will save the world”

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

“The love of ones country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?”

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

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

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

“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 good”

“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.”

“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.”

“Because a fellow has failed once or twice or a dozen times, you dont want to set him down as a failure till hes dead or loses his courage.”

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

“Bach is the supreme genius of music... This man, who knows everything and feels everything, cannot write one note, however unimportant it may appear, which is anything but transcendent. He has reached the heart of every noble thought, and has done it”

“Beauty is all about us, but how may 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 heart of the melody can never be put down on paper.”

“To strip human nature until its divine attributes are made clear, to inform ordinary activities with spiritual fervor, to give wings of eternity to that which is most ephemeral; to make divine things human and human things divine; such is Bach, the g”

“To retire is to die.”

“To retire is to begin to die”

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

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

“Putting a computer in front of a child and expecting it to teach him is like putting a book under his pillow, only more expensive”