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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.

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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I was a God-fearing child, innocent and physically attractive.
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Perhaps only a Genius can truly understand Genius.
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For me, music is always the language which permits one to converse with the Beyond.
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People compose for many reasons, to become immortal because the piano happens to be open because they want to become a millionaire because of the praise of friends because they have looked into a pair of beautiful eyes or for no reason whatsoever.
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We shouldn't repeat the same for ages on end, but look into the new as well.
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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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You should neither play bad compositions, nor, unless compelled, listen to them.
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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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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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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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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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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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Endeavour to play easy pieces well and with elegance that is better than to play difficult pieces badly.
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Only when the form grows clear to you, will the spirit become so too.
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Talent works, genius creates.
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The aesthetic principle is the same in every art, only the material differs.
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The principal mark of genius is not perfection, but originality.
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