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

The simplest things in music are the ones that count. The simplest thing are, of course, also the most difficult to achieve and take years of work.

The first thing to do in life is to do with purpose what one purposes to do.

You must work, we must all work, to make the world worthy of its children.

We ought to think that we are one of the leaves of a tree, and the tree is all humanity. We cannot live without the others, without the tree.

The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?

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!