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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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I was a God-fearing child, innocent and physically attractive.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Talent works, genius creates.
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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 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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For me Wagner is impossible... he talks without ever stopping. One can't just talk all the time.
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For me, music is always the language which permits one to converse with the Beyond.
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The aesthetic principle is the same in every art, only the material differs.
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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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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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We shouldn't repeat the same for ages on end, but look into the new as well.
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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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Without enthusiasm nothing great can be effected in art.
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The principal mark of genius is not perfection, but originality.
Robert Schumann
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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