List of Pablo Casals Quotes

To Retire Is The Beginning Of Death.

Do We Dare To Be Ourselves?' This Is The Question That Counts - And Not, 'must A Man Be Helpless?' ...a Man Can Do Something For Peace Without Having To Jump Into Politics.

The Answer To Helplessness Is Not So Very Complicated.

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.

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.

Say Things To The World That Are True.

Music Will Save The World.

How Could Anybody Think Of Bach As 'cold' When These [cello] Suites Seem To Shine With The Most Glittering Kind Of Poetry," Casals Said. "as I Got On With The Study I Discovered A New World Of Space And Beauty... The Feelings I Experienced Were Among The Purest And Most Intense In My Artistic Life!

I Have Always Regarded Manual Labour As Creative And Looked With Respect-and, Yes, Wonder-at People Who Work With Their Hands. It Seems To Me That Their Creativity Is No Less Than That Of A Violinist Or Painter.

The Cello Is Like A Beautiful Woman Who Has Not Grown Older, But Younger With Time, More Slender, More Supple, More Graceful.

Thank God, I'll Never Have To Play The Cello Again.

One Should Be Able To Say To Our Children: You Are A Marvel! You Are Unique. In All The World, There Is No Other Child Exactly Like You. In The Millions Of Years That Have Passed, There Has Never Been Another Child Like You! ... And When You Grow Up, Can You Harm Another Who Is, Like You, A Marvel?