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• If you play Bach every day, you are not so alone.

  Pablo Casals

  Play, Ifs

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• For the past eighty years I have started each day in the same manner... I go to the piano, and I play preludes and fugues of Bach... It is a sort of benediction on the house.

  Pablo Casals

  Past, Years, Play

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• Resist doing things that have no meaning for life.

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• For twelve years I studied and worked at them every day, and I was nearly 25 before I had the courage to play one of them in public. Before I did, no violinist or cellist had ever played a Suite in its entirety.

  Pablo Casals

  Years, Play, Twelve

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• Parents shouldn't lie to their children-not even when they think it's for their own good. Even a little lie is dangerous.

  Pablo Casals

  Children, Lying, Thinking

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• Music will save the world.

  Pablo Casals

  Music, Creativity, World

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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

  Music, Careers, Firsts

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• Yes, it is true. I am a miracle. I am a miracle like a tree is a miracle, like a flower is a miracle. Now, if I am a miracle, can I do a bad thing? I can't, because I am a miracle, I am a miracle. . . .

  Pablo Casals

  Flower, Tree, Miracle

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

  Pablo Casals

  Life, Purpose, Firsts

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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?

  Pablo Casals

  Children, Growing Up, Unique

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• We are not free to walk on our neighbor's toes.

  Pablo Casals

  Freedom, Toes, Neighbor

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• Kenneth Hari's art work shall influence mankind.

  Pablo Casals

  Art, Influence, Mankind

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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

  Integrity, Men, Age

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Thank God, I'll never have to play the cello again.

  Pablo Casals

  Play, Thank God

  "I Can’t Go On!" by Joan Acocella, www.newyorker.com. August 3, 2015.

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

  Pablo Casals

  Inspirational, Heart, Men

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• The cello is like a beautiful woman who has not grown older, but younger with time, more slender, more supple, more graceful.

  Pablo Casals

  Beauty, Beautiful, Women

  "Contemporary Hispanic Quotations" edited by Daniel E. Stanton, Edward F. Stanton, Greenwood Publishing Group, (p. 35), 2003.

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• Say things to the world that are true.

  Pablo Casals

  Truth, World

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• You do not lose your value or preciousness when you grow to be a adult. You are still that miraculous creation. You must work, we must all work, to make the world worthy of its children.

  Pablo Casals

  Children, Adults, World

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• The earth becomes heaven when you release your fear. The main thing in life is not to be afraid of being human.

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  Fear, Things In Life, Heaven

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• 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.

  Pablo Casals

  Creativity, Hands, People

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• 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!

  Pablo Casals

  Thinking, Artistic Life, Space

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• 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.

  Pablo Casals

  Men, Dare, Can Do Something

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• 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.

  Pablo Casals

  Voice, Creating, Play

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• To retire is the beginning of death.

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  Retirement, Work, Aging

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• The answer to helplessness is not so very complicated.

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  Answers, Complicated, Helplessness

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