"When you play, never mind who listens to…" — Robert Schumann
"When you play, never mind who listens to you."
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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 Experience Quotes
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Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them…
— Hannah Arendt
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For some young people, their first experience ever hearing punk rock music was playing the Green Bay Packers on 'Madden'.
— Billie Joe Armstrong
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An illness is like a journey into a far country; it sifts all one's experience and removes it to a…
— Sholem Asch
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We believe that Lebanon has been the first real experience for all the Arabs.
— Bashar al-Assad
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Today, the Iraqi citizen sees that America is coming and wants to occupy his country and kill him, and he…
— Bashar al-Assad
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The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience.
— Chinua Achebe
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People from different parts of the world can respond to the same story if it says something to them about…
— Chinua Achebe
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Foreignness is all around. Only in the heart of the heart of the country, namely the heart of the United…
— Margaret Atwood
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Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their consciences and ask themselves with how…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.
— Saint Augustine
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My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find…
— Saint Augustine
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To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.
— Teresa of Avila
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