109 Quotes by Pablo Casals

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

"For the past eighty years I have started each day in the same manner. It is not a mechanical routine, but something essential to my daily life. I go to the piano, and play two preludes and fugues of Bach. I cannot think of doing otherwise. It is a sort of benediction on the house. But that is not its only meaning for me. It is a rediscovery of the world of which I have the joy of being a part. It fills me with awareness of the wonder of life, with a feeling of the incredible marvel of being a human being."

"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."

"To live is not enough; we must take part."

"The only weapons I ever had were my cello and my baton."

"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."

"Music must serve a purpose; it must be a part of something larger than itself, a part of humanity..."

"Say things to the world that are true."

"Music will save the world."

"Of course, I continue to play and to practice. I think I would do so if I lived for another hundred years."