Pablo Casals Quotes

The heart of the melody can never be put down on paper... view

By: Pablo Casals

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

By: Pablo Casals

Let us not forget that the greatest composers were also the greatest thieves. They stole from everyone and everywhere... view

By: Pablo Casals

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

By: Pablo Casals

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

By: Pablo Casals

Music will save the world... view

By: Pablo Casals

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

By: Pablo Casals

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

By: Pablo Casals

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... view

By: Pablo Casals

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

By: Pablo Casals

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... view

By: Pablo Casals

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

By: Pablo Casals

To retire is to begin to die... view

By: Pablo Casals

To retire is to die... view

By: Pablo Casals

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... view

By: Pablo Casals

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

By: Pablo Casals

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... view

By: Pablo Casals