Resist Doing Things That Have No Meaning

As Long As One Can Admire And Love, Then One Is Young Forever.

The Miracle Of Bach Has Not Appeared In Any Other Art. To Strip Human Nature Until Its Divine Attributes Are Made Clear, To Inform Ordinary Activities With Spiritual Fervour, To Give Wings Of Eternity To That Which Is Most Ephemeral; To Make Divine Things Human And Human Things Divine; Such Is Bach, The Greatest And Purest Moment In Music Of All Time.

To Be A Musician Is A Great Privilege But It Is Also A Very Great Responsibility. One Must Think That To Be A Musician Is A Gift - A Gift From Nature. There Is No Great Merit In Us Except In Loving This Gift With Respect And Devotion And Doing Everything Possible To Honor That Gift By Work And More Work. We Must Work With Conviction And Humility, Searching For Beauty, Simplicity, And The Truth. And It Is For Us Musicians To Do All In Our Power For A Better World. Music Must Carry The Message Of Beauty, Of Love And Of Peace.

There Is No Substitute For Work; What Seems Ease Of Performance Comes From The Greatest Labor.

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!