The person who works and is never bored is never old. Work and interest in worthwhile things are the best remedy for age.

The art of interpretation is not to play what is written.

Of course, I continue to play and to practice. I think I would do so if I lived for another hundred years.

Thank God, I'll never have to play the cello again.

The cello is like a beautiful woman who has not grown older, but younger with time, more slender, more supple, more graceful.

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!

The art of not playing in tempo--one has to learn it. And the art of not playing what is written on the printed paper.