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Does it not seem as if Mozart's works become fresher and fresher the oftener we hear them?

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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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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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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The principal mark of genius is not perfection, but originality.
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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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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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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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In order to compose, all you need to do is remember a tune that nobody else has thought of.
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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.
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Only when the form grows clear to you, will the spirit become so too.
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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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That first concept is alway the most naturally and best. The mind errs, the emotion never.
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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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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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For me Wagner is impossible... he talks without ever stopping. One can't just talk all the time.
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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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Music induces nightingales to sing, pug dogs to yelp.
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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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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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