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For me Wagner is impossible... he talks without ever stopping. One can't just talk all the time.
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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Only when the form grows clear to you, will the spirit become so too.
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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 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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You should neither play bad compositions, nor, unless compelled, listen to them.
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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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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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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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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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In order to compose, all you need to do is remember a tune that nobody else has thought of.
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The aesthetic principle is the same in every art, only the material differs.
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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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We have learned to express the more delicate nuances of feeling by penetrating more deeply into the mysteries of harmony.
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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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Perhaps only a Genius can truly understand Genius.
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I was a God-fearing child, innocent and physically attractive.
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That first concept is alway the most naturally and best. The mind errs, the emotion never.
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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.
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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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