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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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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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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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We have learned to express the more delicate nuances of feeling by penetrating more deeply into the mysteries of harmony.
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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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Perhaps only a Genius can truly understand Genius.
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You should neither play bad compositions, nor, unless compelled, listen to them.
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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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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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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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Does it not seem as if Mozart's works become fresher and fresher the oftener we hear them?
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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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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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Endeavour to play easy pieces well and with elegance that is better than to play difficult pieces badly.
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Only when the form grows clear to you, will the spirit become so too.
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