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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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Only when the form grows clear to you, will the spirit become so too.
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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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That first concept is alway the most naturally and best. The mind errs, the emotion never.
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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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Music induces nightingales to sing, pug dogs to yelp.
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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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We shouldn't repeat the same for ages on end, but look into the new as well.
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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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We have learned to express the more delicate nuances of feeling by penetrating more deeply into the mysteries of harmony.
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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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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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I was a God-fearing child, innocent and physically attractive.
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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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Mendelssohn I consider the first musician of the day I doff my hat to him as my superior. He plays with everything, especially with the grouping of the instruments in the orchestra, but with such ease, delicacy and art, with such mastery throughout.
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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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Endeavour to play easy pieces well and with elegance that is better than to play difficult pieces badly.
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