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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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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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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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Send light to the dark hearts of men, that is the duty the artist.
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For me, music is always the language which permits one to converse with the Beyond.
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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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For me Wagner is impossible... he talks without ever stopping. One can't just talk all the time.
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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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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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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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We shouldn't repeat the same for ages on end, but look into the new as well.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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I was a God-fearing child, innocent and physically attractive.
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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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