109 Quotes by 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."

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

"Let us not forget that the greatest composers where also the greatest thieves. They stole from everyone and everywhere."

"To strip human nature until its divine attributes are made clear, to inform ordinary activities with spiritual fervor, to give wings of eternity to that which is most ephemeral; to make divine things human and human things divine; such is Bach, the g"

"Beauty is all about us, but how may are blind! They look at the wonder of this earth and seem to see nothing. People move hectically but give little thought to where they are going. They seek excitement ... as if they were lost and desperate."

"The answer to helplessness is not so very complicated,"

"I see in the melody of Nature, God. It is a wonderful work of art. The spirit of the art is wonderful. And I feel that I am myself because I have never taken music lightly. Music is the manifestation of God, like everything else."

"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."

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

"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."