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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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The principal mark of genius is not perfection, but originality.
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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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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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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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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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That first concept is alway the most naturally and best. The mind errs, the emotion never.
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It was an unforgettable picture to see Chopin sitting at the piano like a clairvoyant, lost in his dreams to see how his vision communicated itself through his playing, and how, at the end of each piece, he had the sad habit of running one finger over the length of the plaintive keyboard, as though to tear himself forcibly away from his dream.
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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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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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Talent works, genius creates.
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The aesthetic principle is the same in every art, only the material differs.
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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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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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You should neither play bad compositions, nor, unless compelled, listen to them.
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Only when the form grows clear to you, will the spirit become so too.
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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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Music induces nightingales to sing, pug dogs to yelp.
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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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Nature best teaches how to pray, and how to reverence all the gifts the Almighty has given us. She is like a vast outspread handkerchief, embroidered with God's eternal name, on which we may dry alike our tears of sorrow and of joy she turns weeping into ecstasy, and fills our hearts with speechless, quiet reverence and resignation.
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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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