Let us not forget that the greatest composers were also the greatest thieves. They stole from everyone and everywhere.
The only weapons I ever had were my cello and my baton.
Resist doing things that have no meaning for life.
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.
Parents shouldn't lie to their children-not even when they think it's for their own good. Even a little lie is dangerous.
Yes, it is true. I am a miracle. I am a miracle like a tree is a miracle, like a flower is a miracle. Now, if I am a miracle, can I do a bad thing? I can't, because I am a miracle, I am a miracle. . . .
The first thing to do in life is to do with purpose what one purposes to do.
One should be able to say to our children: You are a marvel! You are unique. In all the world, there is no other child exactly like you. In the millions of years that have passed, there has never been another child like you! ... and when you grow up, can you harm another who is, like you, a marvel?
We are not free to walk on our neighbor's toes.
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.
Kenneth Hari's art work shall influence mankind.
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.
Thank God, I'll never have to play the cello again.
Music will save the world.
Man has made many machines, complex and cunning, but which of them indeed rivals the workings of his heart?
Say things to the world that are true.
The cello is like a beautiful woman who has not grown older, but younger with time, more slender, more supple, more graceful.
You do not lose your value or preciousness when you grow to be a adult. You are still that miraculous creation. You must work, we must all work, to make the world worthy of its children.
The earth becomes heaven when you release your fear. The main thing in life is not to be afraid of being human.
I have always regarded manual labour as creative and looked with respect-and, yes, wonder-at people who work with their hands. It seems to me that their creativity is no less than that of a violinist or painter.
How could anybody think of Bach as 'cold' when these [cello] suites seem to shine with the most glittering kind of poetry," Casals said. "As I got on with the study I discovered a new world of space and beauty... the feelings I experienced were among the purest and most intense in my artistic life!
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.
When we play an unaccompanied Bach suite we may compare ourselves to an actor in Shakespeare's day, creating scenery which did not exist at all, through the power of declamation and suggestion. So in Bach. There is but one voice -- and many voices have to be suggested.
To retire is the beginning of death.
The answer to helplessness is not so very complicated.
