Pablo Casals Quotes

No man can write who is not first a humanitarian

I was deeply interested in conveying what is a deeply felt conviction of my own. This is simply to suggest that human beings must involve themselves in the anguish of other human beings. This, I submit to you, is not a political thesis at all. It is simply an expression of what I would hope might be ultimately a simple humanity for humanity's sake.

I advance in life, I grow more simple, and I become more and more patriotic for humanity.

Music is just kind of an expression of who I am. It's what I do.

The true beauty of music is that it connects people. It carries a message, and we, the musicians, are the messengers.

I'm an artist, but, as I get older, I really want to do philanthropic work and help people.

The most important thing about music that I've learned after all this time is that to me, it's a way of reaching the truth.

You have to open your mind. I like the ability to express myself in a deep way. It's the closest music to our humanity - it's like a folk music that rises up out of a culture.

Music truly is the universal language.

We all, as engineers, doctors, have a big responsibility to bring smiles on the faces of suffering humanity.

Music is universal; it's healing.

An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.

An artist needn't be a clergyman or a churchwarden, but he certainly must have a warm heart for his fellow men.

If all of us acted in unison as I act individually there would be no wars and no poverty. I have made myself personally responsible for the fate of every human being who has come my way.

It's a unique thing, and it's probably the thing I love most about songs and music - their ability to connect in a human way.

As a society, we come up lacking in many of the marks of compassion and wisdom by which we measure ourselves as civilized.

We are a compassionate society.

People think, for some reason, that I don't care about creativity and art, or helping people. So I would say that the biggest misconception is, when you think about me, when you think about my name, I don't want you to think about design or clothes or music. I want you to think about a person that's just trying to help people.

When I started doing music, it was out of despair and boredom. I got passionate about it, and I felt that it allowed me to become somebody: an artist who explores her different identities.

Music has no borders, which is most important.

Music, like film, is an incredible tool for creating empathy.

In music, there is no country; there is no time.

If there's anything that would unite the world, it would be music.

Empathy should not be contingent on our proximity to suffering or the likelihood of it happening to us. Rather, it should stem from a disdain that suffering is happening at all.

I believe that music is an international language and deserves to be heard all over the world.