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Talent works, genius creates.

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Robert Schumann
Age: 46 †
Born: 1810
Born: June 8
Died: 1856
Died: July 29
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Robert Alexander Schumann
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Nature best teaches how to pray, and how to reverence all the gifts the Almighty has given us. She is like a vast outspread handkerchief, embroidered with God's eternal name, on which we may dry alike our tears of sorrow and of joy she turns weeping into ecstasy, and fills our hearts with speechless, quiet reverence and resignation.
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We liked it or I didn't like it people say. As if it were nothing higher than to please the people!
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Without enthusiasm nothing great can be effected in art.
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Can that which has cost the artist days, weeks, months and even years of reflection be understood in a flash by a dilettante?
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I was a God-fearing child, innocent and physically attractive.
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Music induces nightingales to sing, pug dogs to yelp.
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Send light to the dark hearts of men, that is the duty the artist.
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When young, one learns his craftsmanship, may become a young master, and it is youth that is most auspicious for developing certain skills.
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I feel so entirely in my element with a full orchestra even if my mortal enemies were marshalled before me, I could lead them, master them, surround them, or repulse them.
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Endeavour to play easy pieces well and with elegance that is better than to play difficult pieces badly.
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You write to become immortal, or because the piano happens to be open, or you've looked into a pair of beautiful eyes.
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It is the curse of talent that, although it labors with greater steadiness and perseverance than genius, it does not reach its goal, while genius already on the summit of the ideal, gazes laughingly about.
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My heart pounds sickeningly and I turn pale... I often feel as if I were dead... I seem to be losing my mind.
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In order to compose, all you need to do is remember a tune that nobody else has thought of.
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My symphonies would have reached Opus 100 if I had but written them down... Sometimes I am so full of music, and so overflowing with melody, that I find it simply impossible to write down anything.
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The flame that is naturally clear always gives the most light and heat. If I could blend my talent for poetry and music into one, the light would burn still clearer, and I might go far.
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For me, music is always the language which permits one to converse with the Beyond.
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You will be most readily cured of vanity or presumption by studying the history of music, and by hearing the master pieces which have been produced at different periods.
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Does it not seem as if Mozart's works become fresher and fresher the oftener we hear them?
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The aesthetic principle is the same in every art, only the material differs.
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