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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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That first concept is alway the most naturally and best. The mind errs, the emotion never.
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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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Does it not seem as if Mozart's works become fresher and fresher the oftener we hear them?
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For me, music is always the language which permits one to converse with the Beyond.
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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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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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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 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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I was a God-fearing child, innocent and physically attractive.
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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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Without enthusiasm nothing great can be effected in art.
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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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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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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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