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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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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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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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In order to compose, all you need to do is remember a tune that nobody else has thought of.
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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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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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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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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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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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Only when the form grows clear to you, will the spirit become so too.
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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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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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We have learned to express the more delicate nuances of feeling by penetrating more deeply into the mysteries of harmony.
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