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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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Remember, there are more people in the world than yourself. Be modest! You have not yet invented nor thought anything which others have not thought or invented before. And should you really have done so, consider it a gift of heaven which you are to share with others.
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The principal mark of genius is not perfection, but originality.
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Send light to the dark hearts of men, that is the duty the artist.
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Talent works, genius creates.
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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 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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Without enthusiasm nothing great can be effected in art.
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That first concept is alway the most naturally and best. The mind errs, the emotion never.
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Think it a vile habit to alter works of good composers, to omit parts of them, or to insert new-fashioned ornaments. This is the greatest insult you can offer to Art.
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If we were all determined to play the first violin we should never have an ensemble. therefore, respect every musician in his proper place.
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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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The poet sees better than other mortals. I do not see things as they are, but according to my own subjective impression, and this makes life easier and simpler.
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I was a God-fearing child, innocent and physically attractive.
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It was an unforgettable picture to see Chopin sitting at the piano like a clairvoyant, lost in his dreams to see how his vision communicated itself through his playing, and how, at the end of each piece, he had the sad habit of running one finger over the length of the plaintive keyboard, as though to tear himself forcibly away from his dream.
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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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From a pound of iron, that costs little, a thousand watch-springs can be made, whose value becomes prodigious. The pound you have received from the Lord,--use it faithfully.
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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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Perhaps only a Genius can truly understand Genius.
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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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Does it not seem as if Mozart's works become fresher and fresher the oftener we hear them?
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