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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.
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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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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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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Endeavour to play easy pieces well and with elegance that is better than to play difficult pieces badly.
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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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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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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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Music induces nightingales to sing, pug dogs to yelp.
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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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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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Talent works, genius creates.
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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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The aesthetic principle is the same in every art, only the material differs.
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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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We have learned to express the more delicate nuances of feeling by penetrating more deeply into the mysteries of harmony.
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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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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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Perhaps only a Genius can truly understand Genius.
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Without enthusiasm nothing great can be effected in art.
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For me, music is always the language which permits one to converse with the Beyond.
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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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