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Send light to the dark hearts of men, that is the duty the artist.

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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Endeavour to play easy pieces well and with elegance that is better than to play difficult pieces badly.
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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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For me Wagner is impossible... he talks without ever stopping. One can't just talk all the time.
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Talent works, genius creates.
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The poet sees better than other mortals. I do not see things as they are, but according to my own subjective impression, and this makes life easier and simpler.
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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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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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Without enthusiasm nothing great can be effected in art.
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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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For me, music is always the language which permits one to converse with the Beyond.
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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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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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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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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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We have learned to express the more delicate nuances of feeling by penetrating more deeply into the mysteries of harmony.
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My indifference to money and my spendthrift ways are disgraceful. You have no idea how reckless I am how often I practically throw money out of the window. I am always making good resolutions, but the next minute I forget and give the waiter eightpence.
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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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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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You should neither play bad compositions, nor, unless compelled, listen to them.
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