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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.
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 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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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 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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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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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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Music induces nightingales to sing, pug dogs to yelp.
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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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Without enthusiasm nothing great can be effected in art.
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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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In order to compose, all you need to do is remember a tune that nobody else has thought of.
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Art was not created as a way to riches. Strive to become a true artist all else will take care of itself.
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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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