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The aesthetic principle is the same in every art, only the material differs.

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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Only when the form grows clear to you, will the spirit become so too.
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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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Send light to the dark hearts of men, that is the duty the artist.
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I was a God-fearing child, innocent and physically attractive.
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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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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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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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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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For me Wagner is impossible... he talks without ever stopping. One can't just talk all the time.
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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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Does it not seem as if Mozart's works become fresher and fresher the oftener we hear them?
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Talent works, genius creates.
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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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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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Think it a vile habit to alter works of good composers, to omit parts of them, or to insert new-fashioned ornaments. This is the greatest insult you can offer to Art.
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You should neither play bad compositions, nor, unless compelled, listen to them.
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That first concept is alway the most naturally and best. The mind errs, the emotion never.
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For me, music is always the language which permits one to converse with the Beyond.
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Perhaps only a Genius can truly understand Genius.
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