Pablo Casals
Pablo Casals
Pau Casals i Defilló, better known in some countries as Pablo Casals, was a Spanish cellist and conductor from Catalonia. He is generally regarded as the pre-eminent cellist of the first half of the 20th century, and one of the greatest cellists of all time. He made many recordings throughout his career, of solo, chamber, and orchestral music, also as conductor, but he is perhaps best remembered for the recordings of the Bach Cello Suites he made from 1936 to...
NationalitySpanish
ProfessionCellist
Date of Birth29 December 1876
CityEl Vendrell, Spain
CountrySpain
To retire is to begin to die.
The greatest respect an artist can pay to music is to give it life.
We are not free to walk on our neighbor's toes.
Man has made many machines, complex and cunning, but which of them indeed rivals the workings of his heart?
Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart.
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.
You must work, we must all work, to make the world worthy of its children.
To the whole world you might be just one person, but to one person you might just be the whole world.
The heart of the melody can never be put down on paper.
The most perfect technique is that which is not noticed at all.
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.
The cello is like a beautiful woman who has not grown older, but younger with time, more slender, more supple, more graceful.
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.
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.