Pablo Casals Quotes


"I feel the capacity to care is the thing which gives life its deepest significance."
- Pablo Casals
(Related: Life, Care)

"Let us not forget that the greatest composers were also the greatest thieves. They stole from everyone and everywhere."
- Pablo Casals
(Related: Composers, Forget)

"Man has made many machines, complex and cunning, but which of them indeed rivals the workings of his heart?"
- Pablo Casals
(Related: Heart, Cunning, Machines, Man)

"Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart."
- Pablo Casals
(Related: Music, Heart)

"Music will save the world."
- Pablo Casals
(Related: Music, Will, World)

"The art of interpretation is not to play what is written."
- Pablo Casals
(Related: Art, Play)

"The first thing to do in life is to do with purpose what one purposes to do."
- Pablo Casals
(Related: Life, Purpose, First)

"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."
- Pablo Casals
(Related: Life, Man, Old, Senses, Want, World)

"The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?"
- Pablo Casals
(Related: Love, Country)

"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."
- Pablo Casals
(Related: Courage, Act, Decency, Giving, Goodness, Needs, World)

"The most perfect technique is that which is not noticed at all."
- Pablo Casals
"To retire is to begin to die."
- Pablo Casals
"To retire is to die."
- 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."
- Pablo Casals
(Related: Humanity)

"You must work - we must all work to make the world worthy of its children."
- Pablo Casals
(Related: Work, Children, 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 there will not be, another child like him."
- Pablo Casals
(Related: Beginning, End, Will, World)