Pablo Casals quotes

Pablo Casals was a renowned Spanish cellist and conductor, celebrated as one of the greatest cellists of the 20th century. His masterful interpretations and passionate performances helped elevate the cello to new artistic heights. He inspired generations of musicians through both his artistry and his commitment to peace and human rights. Here are 22 of his quotes:

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

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 will not be, another child like him.

Pablo Casals

The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border? There is a brotherhood among all men. This must be recognized if life is to remain. We must learn the love of man.

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.

Pablo Casals

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.

Pablo Casals

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.

Pablo Casals

To live is not enough; we must take part.

Pablo Casals

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

Pablo Casals

I have not played the cello in front of an audience since long years but I think I must do it this time. I am going to play a melody from the Catalonian folklore: The singing of the Birds. Birds, when in the sky, go singing: Peace, peace, peace. And this is a melody that Bach, Beethoven and all great people would have admired and loved. And, in addition, it springs up from the soul of my country: Catalonia.

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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.

Pablo Casals

This is the greatest honour I have ever received in my life. Peace has always been my greatest concern.

Pablo Casals

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

Pablo Casals

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

Pablo Casals

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

Pablo Casals

Music will save the world.

Pablo Casals

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

Pablo Casals

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

Pablo Casals

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

Pablo Casals

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

Pablo Casals