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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 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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We have learned to express the more delicate nuances of feeling by penetrating more deeply into the mysteries of harmony.
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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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Confidence and courage are special skills to the art ... Within the four walls of his study, the artist should be modest, work diligently and conscientiously. While for the public, he'll show himself audacious, yes even into cheerful boldness. And so a new public's darling has arisen.
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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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When young, one learns his craftsmanship, may become a young master, and it is youth that is most auspicious for developing certain skills.
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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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The aesthetic principle is the same in every art, only the material differs.
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I feel so entirely in my element with a full orchestra even if my mortal enemies were marshalled before me, I could lead them, master them, surround them, or repulse them.
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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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In order to compose, all you need to do is remember a tune that nobody else has thought of.
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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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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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For me Wagner is impossible... he talks without ever stopping. One can't just talk all the time.
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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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