

“To the whole world you might be just one person, but to one person you might just be the whole world.”
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“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.”
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“Real understanding does not come from what we learn in books; it comes from what we learn from love of nature, of music, of man. For only what is learned in that way is truly understood.”
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“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 Cello Suites: J. S. Bach, Pablo Casals, and the Search for a Baroque Masterpiece
― The Cello Suites: J. S. Bach, Pablo Casals, and the Search for a Baroque Masterpiece
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