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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.
Robert Schumann
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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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Talent works, genius creates.
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Art was not created as a way to riches. Strive to become a true artist all else will take care of itself.
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For me, music is always the language which permits one to converse with the Beyond.
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I was a God-fearing child, innocent and physically attractive.
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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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The aesthetic principle is the same in every art, only the material differs.
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My indifference to money and my spendthrift ways are disgraceful. You have no idea how reckless I am how often I practically throw money out of the window. I am always making good resolutions, but the next minute I forget and give the waiter eightpence.
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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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Perhaps only a Genius can truly understand Genius.
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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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When you play, do not trouble yourself as to who is listening. Yet always play as though a master listened to you.
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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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For me Wagner is impossible... he talks without ever stopping. One can't just talk all the time.
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Only when the form grows clear to you, will the spirit become so too.
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That first concept is alway the most naturally and best. The mind errs, the emotion never.
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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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