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
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
I feel the capacity to care is the thing which gives life its deepest significance.
– Pablo Casals
Let us not forget that the greatest composers were also the greatest thieves. They stole from everyone and everywhere.
– Pablo Casals
Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart.
– Pablo Casals
The cello is like a beautiful woman who has not grown older, but younger with time, more slender, more supple, more graceful.
– Pablo Casals
The first thing to do in life is to do with purpose what one purposes to do.
– Pablo Casals
The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?
– 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
You must work - we must all work to make the world worthy of its children.
– Pablo Casals
The art of interpretation is not to play what is written.