"To compose is to remember music that has…" — Robert Schumann
"To compose is to remember music that has never been written."
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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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