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Robert Schumann has 45 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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The principal mark of genius is not perfection, but originality.
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I am so fresh in soul and spirit that life gushes and bubbles around me in a thousand springs.
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For me, music is always the language which permits one to converse with the Beyond.
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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…
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Let your intimate friends be chosen from such as are better informed than yourself.
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You should neither play bad compositions, nor, unless compelled, listen to them.
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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…
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My whole life has been a struggle between Poetry and Prose, or call it Music and Law.
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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…
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We may be sure that a genius like Mozart, were he born today, would write concertos like Chopin and not like Mozart.
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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;…
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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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Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank.
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Exaggeration is in the course of things. Nature sends no creature, no man into the world, without adding a small excess of…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I cannot forbid a person to marry several wives, for it does not contradict Scripture. MARTIN LUTHER, letter to Chancellor Gregory Brück,…
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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…
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When you control a man's thinking you do not have to worry about his actions. You do not have to tell him…
— Carter G. Woodson
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I refuse to "look up." Optimism nauseates me. It is perverse. Since man's fall, his proper position in the universe has been…
— John Kennedy Toole
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For law, in its true notion, is not so much the limitation, as the direction of a free and intelligent agent to…
— John Locke
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Nature, to each allots his proper Sphere, But, that forsaken, we like Comets err: Toss'd thro' the Void, by some rude Shock…
— William Congreve
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