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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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Robert Schumann
Age: 46 †
Born: 1810
Born: June 8
Died: 1856
Died: July 29
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Only when the form grows clear to you, will the spirit become so too.
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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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The aesthetic principle is the same in every art, only the material differs.
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Music induces nightingales to sing, pug dogs to yelp.
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That first concept is alway the most naturally and best. The mind errs, the emotion never.
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Perhaps only a Genius can truly understand Genius.
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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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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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The principal mark of genius is not perfection, but originality.
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