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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.
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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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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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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Confidence and courage are special skills to the art ... Within the four walls of his study, the artist should be modest, work diligently and conscientiously. While for the public, he'll show himself audacious, yes even into cheerful boldness. And so a new public's darling has arisen.
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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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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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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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