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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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Robert Alexander Schumann
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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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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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For me, music is always the language which permits one to converse with the Beyond.
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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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You should neither play bad compositions, nor, unless compelled, listen to them.
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Only when the form grows clear to you, will the spirit become so too.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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In order to compose, all you need to do is remember a tune that nobody else has thought of.
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Music induces nightingales to sing, pug dogs to yelp.
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The principal mark of genius is not perfection, but originality.
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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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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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