Robert Schumann Quotes

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• The principal mark of genius is not perfection, but originality.
• I am so fresh in soul and spirit that life gushes and bubbles around me in a thousand springs.
• For me, music is always the language which permits one to converse with the Beyond.
• 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…
• Let your intimate friends be chosen from such as are better informed than yourself.
• You should neither play bad compositions, nor, unless compelled, listen to them.
• 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…
• My whole life has been a struggle between Poetry and Prose, or call it Music and Law.
• 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…
• We may be sure that a genius like Mozart, were he born today, would write concertos like Chopin and not like Mozart.
• 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…
• We have learned to express the more delicate nuances of feeling by penetrating more deeply into the mysteries of harmony.
• A fiery, good beginner always stands higher than a master in mediocrity...
• To compose is to remember music that has never been written.
• I sometimes lack confidence in public, although I am proud enough inwardly.
• Believe me, were I ever to accomplish anything, it would be in music, which has always attracted me; and, without overestimating myself, I am conscious…
• 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…
• The aesthetic principle is the same in every art, only the material differs.
• Music - so different from painting - is the art which we enjoy most in company with others. A symphony, presented in a room with…
• 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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