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Endeavour to play easy pieces well and with elegance that is better than to play difficult pieces badly.

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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That first concept is alway the most naturally and best. The mind errs, the emotion never.
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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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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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Only when the form grows clear to you, will the spirit become so too.
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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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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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Without enthusiasm nothing great can be effected in art.
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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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The principal mark of genius is not perfection, but originality.
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I was a God-fearing child, innocent and physically attractive.
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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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