Pablo Casals Music Quotations

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.

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.

The most important thing in music is what is not in the notes.

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.

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

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

Don't play the notes. Play the meaning of the notes.