"Think it a vile habit to alter works……" — Robert Schumann
"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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Robert Schumann
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45 Quotes by Robert Schumann
Robert Schumann has 45 quotes on this site.
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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…
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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…
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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…
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We may be sure that a genius like Mozart, were he born today, would write concertos like Chopin and not…
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People compose for many reasons, to become immortal; because the piano happens to be open; because they want to become…
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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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More Alter Quotes
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one of 496 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.
— Francis Bacon
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Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity.
— Lord Acton
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Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot…
— John Adams
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My personal life is the same. At the end of the day, this is just a job. I love what…
— Chris Brown
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Just really, really believe in what you're trying to do. Don't let people alter that. Let people advise you and…
— Luke Bryan
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The Black Mamba collection of watches is me: It is my alter ego, so to speak. As I mentioned before,…
— Kobe Bryant
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In an individual sport, yes, you have to win titles. Baseball's different. But basketball, hockey? One person can control the…
— Kobe Bryant
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Well in the book Carrie was my alter ego. In real life, Sarah Jessica and I don't look anything alike.…
— Candace Bushnell
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God cannot alter the past, though historians can.
— Samuel Butler
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Our life is what our thoughts make it. A man will find that as he alters his thoughts toward things…
— James Allen
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When an action is once done, it is right or wrong for ever; no accidental failure of its good or…
— William Kingdon Clifford
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You are the one who must decide whose thoughts you will entertain. You are free to choose-but you are not…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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