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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.
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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We shouldn't repeat the same for ages on end, but look into the new as well.
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Music induces nightingales to sing, pug dogs to yelp.
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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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Send light to the dark hearts of men, that is the duty the artist.
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I was a God-fearing child, innocent and physically attractive.
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Only when the form grows clear to you, will the spirit become so too.
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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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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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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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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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The aesthetic principle is the same in every art, only the material differs.
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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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Without enthusiasm nothing great can be effected in 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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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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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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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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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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