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Without enthusiasm nothing great can be effected in art.

Robert Schumann

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Robert Schumann
Age: 46 †
Born: 1810
Born: June 8
Died: 1856
Died: July 29
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Pianist
Robert Alexander Schumann
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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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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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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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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 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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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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Only when the form grows clear to you, will the spirit become so too.
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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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You write to become immortal, or because the piano happens to be open, or you've looked into a pair of beautiful eyes.
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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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Does it not seem as if Mozart's works become fresher and fresher the oftener we hear them?
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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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That first concept is alway the most naturally and best. The mind errs, the emotion never.
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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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My symphonies would have reached Opus 100 if I had but written them down... Sometimes I am so full of music, and so overflowing with melody, that I find it simply impossible to write down anything.
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The principal mark of genius is not perfection, but originality.
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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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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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Send light to the dark hearts of men, that is the duty the artist.
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