[He also will perform the rarely encountered] Song of the Birds ... It's only about two minutes long, but it's very beautiful. Casals played it many times, but you don't hear it much anymore. |
Bach is the supreme genius of music... This man, who knows everything and feels everything, cannot write one note, however unimportant it may appear, which is anything but transcendent. He has reached the heart of every noble thought, and has done it |
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. |
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 good |
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. |
I feel the capacity to care is the thing which gives life its deepest significance. |
In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing. |
Let us not forget that the greatest composers where also the greatest thieves. They stole from everyone and everywhere. |
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. |
Music will save the world |
The art of interpretation is not to play what is written. |
The cello is like a beautiful woman who has not grown older, but younger with time, more slender, more supple, more graceful. |
The child must know that he is a miracle, that since the beginning of the world there hasn't been, and until the end of the world there will not be, another child like him. |
The child must know that he is a miracle, that since the beginning of the world there hasn't been, and until the end of the world there will not be, another child like him. |