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Music induces nightingales to sing, pug dogs to yelp.

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Robert Schumann
Age: 46 †
Born: 1810
Born: June 8
Died: 1856
Died: July 29
Composer
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Music Critic
Music Pedagogue
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Pianist
Robert Alexander Schumann
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Nightingales
Dogs
Sing
Dog
Music
Yelp

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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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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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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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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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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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Confidence and courage are special skills to the art ... Within the four walls of his study, the artist should be modest, work diligently and conscientiously. While for the public, he'll show himself audacious, yes even into cheerful boldness. And so a new public's darling has arisen.
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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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Talent works, genius creates.
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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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Without enthusiasm nothing great can be effected in art.
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I was a God-fearing child, innocent and physically attractive.
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For me, music is always the language which permits one to converse with the Beyond.
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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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The principal mark of genius is not perfection, but originality.
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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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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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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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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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