Beautiful Quote by Robert Schumann

People compose for many reasons: to become immortal; because the pianoforte happens to be open; because they want to become a millionaire; because of…

— Robert A Schumann (German Romantic Composer

You write to become immortal, or because the piano happens to be open, or you've looked into a pair of beautiful eyes.

— Robert Schumann

To compose is to remember music that has never been written.

— Robert Schumann

Why do people compose music? Why do people listen to music? When we go into a concert, we go into a place where we…

— Stephen Hough

Composing gives me great pleasure... there is nothing that surpasses the joy of creation, if only because through it one wins hours of self-forgetfulness,…

— Clara Schumann

Why compose works that have to be re-created every time they are performed? Because definitive, once-and-for-all developments seem no longer appropriate to musical thought…

— Pierre Boulez

How vulgar, this hankering after immortality, how vain, how false. Composers are merely scribblers of cave paintings. One writes music because winter is eternal…

— David Mitchell

I always tend to think that composing is not playing an instrument, composing is having something in your head that's steaming and it has…

— Alexandre Desplat

There must be so many people who have various artistic talents that, for whatever reason, just have no way of expressing them. Either they…

— Stephen Hough

“Music has an alchemical quality. And there's more than one voice on the piano. You have two hands. One can be playing a celestial…

— Tori Amos

If you force yourself to write away from the piano, you come up with more inventive things. If you're too good a piano player,…

— Stephen Sondheim

It is not hard to compose but it is wonderfully hard to let the superfluous notes fall under the table. . . So many…

— Johannes Brahms