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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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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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Only when the form grows clear to you, will the spirit become so too.
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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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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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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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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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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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I was a God-fearing child, innocent and physically attractive.
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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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You should neither play bad compositions, nor, unless compelled, listen to them.
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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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The aesthetic principle is the same in every art, only the material differs.
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