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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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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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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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Music induces nightingales to sing, pug dogs to yelp.
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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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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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The aesthetic principle is the same in every art, only the material differs.
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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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For me Wagner is impossible... he talks without ever stopping. One can't just talk all the time.
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People compose for many reasons, to become immortal because the piano happens to be open because they want to become a millionaire because of the praise of friends because they have looked into a pair of beautiful eyes or for no reason whatsoever.
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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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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 was a God-fearing child, innocent and physically attractive.
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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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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.
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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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