11 Quotes & Sayings By Pablo Casals

Pablo Casals was a violinist, a conductor, a composer and a writer. He was also one of the greatest cellists of the 20th century. He was born in Spain in 1876 and died at 100 years old in Puerto Rico in 1973. Casals was a child prodigy who made his debut at age eight Read more

In 1897, he made his professional debut at the Teatro Real in Madrid. In his early 30s, he toured Europe and America with legendary musicians such as Johannes Brahms, Pablo de Sarasate and Fritz Kreisler. His first great success was with the Brahms Cello Concerto which he performed with Jean-Paul Alibert at Carnegie Hall in 1930.

His other recordings include two cello concertos which were recorded by Pablo Casals with the NBC Symphony Orchestra in 1959 and 1970 respectively.

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Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart.. Pablo Casals
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I feel the capacity to care is the thing which gives life its deepest significance. Pablo Casals
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In music, in the sea, in a flower, in a leaf, in an act of kindness... I see what people call God in all these things. Pablo Casals
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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
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What do we teach our children? .. . We should say to each of them: Do you know what you are? You are a marvel. You are unique .. . You may become a Shakespeare a Michelangelo a Beethoven. You have the capacity for anything. Pablo Casals
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Let us not forget that the greatest composers were also the greatest thieves. They stole from everyone and everywhere. Pablo Casals
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Throughout my career nervousness and stage-fright have never left me before playing. And each of the thousands of concerts I have played at I feel as bad as I did the very first time. Pablo Casals
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The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border? Pablo Casals
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Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart. Pablo Casals
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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