109 Quotes by Pablo Casals

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

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.

Do we dare to be ourselves? That is the question that counts.

It takes courage for a man to listen to his own goodness and act on it. Do we dare to be ourselves? That is that question that counts.

Don’t be vain because you happen to have talent. You are not responsible for that; it was not of your doing. What you do with your talent is what matters.

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.

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 main thing in life is not to be afraid to be human.

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