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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.
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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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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Music induces nightingales to sing, pug dogs to yelp.
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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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The flame that is naturally clear always gives the most light and heat. If I could blend my talent for poetry and music into one, the light would burn still clearer, and I might go far.
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The aesthetic principle is the same in every art, only the material differs.
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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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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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For me, music is always the language which permits one to converse with the Beyond.
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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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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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Perhaps only a Genius can truly understand Genius.
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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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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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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.
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I was a God-fearing child, innocent and physically attractive.
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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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That first concept is alway the most naturally and best. The mind errs, the emotion never.
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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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Does it not seem as if Mozart's works become fresher and fresher the oftener we hear them?
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