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• The flame that is naturally clear always gives the most light and heat. If I could blend my talent for poetry and music into one, the light would burn still clearer, and I might go far.

  Robert Schumann

  Light, Flames, Giving

  Robert Schumann (1907). “The Letters of Robert Schumann”

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• My indifference to money and my spendthrift ways are disgraceful. You have no idea how reckless I am; how often I practically throw money out of the window. I am always making good resolutions, but the next minute I forget and give the waiter eightpence.

  Robert Schumann

  Ideas, Giving, Way

  Robert Schumann (1907). “The Letters of Robert Schumann”

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• For me Wagner is impossible... he talks without ever stopping. One can't just talk all the time.

  Robert Schumann

  Stopping, Impossible, Wagner

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• You should diligently play scales and fingerpractices. There are many, however, who believe they'll achieve all, by practicing daily on technique for hours on end, up till high age. It's like practicing every day to enumerate the alfabet faster and faster. One would think one could make better use of their valuable time.

  Robert Schumann

  Believe, Thinking, Play

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• Nature best teaches how to pray, and how to reverence all the gifts the Almighty has given us. She is like a vast outspread handkerchief, embroidered with God's eternal name, on which we may dry alike our tears of sorrow and of joy; she turns weeping into ecstasy, and fills our hearts with speechless, quiet reverence and resignation.

  Robert Schumann

  Heart, Names, Joy

  Robert Schumann (1907). “The Letters of Robert Schumann”

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• If, while at the piano, you attempt to form little melodies, that is very well; but if they come into your mind of themselves, when you are not practising, you may be still more pleased; for the internal organ of music is then roused in you. The fingers must do what the head desires; not the contrary.

  Robert Schumann

  Piano, Mind, Desire

  Robert Schumann (1860). “Advice to Young Musicians”, p.28

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• The poet sees better than other mortals. I do not see things as they are, but according to my own subjective impression, and this makes life easier and simpler.

  Robert Schumann

  Poet, Easier, Impression

  Robert Schumann (1907). “The Letters of Robert Schumann”

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• We shouldn't repeat the same for ages on end, but look into the new as well.

  Robert Schumann

  Age, Looks, Ends

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• Can that which has cost the artist days, weeks, months and even years of reflection be understood in a flash by a dilettante?

  Robert Schumann

  Artist, Reflection, Years

  Robert Schumann (1983). “On Music and Musicians”, p.38, Univ of California Press

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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 which have been produced at different periods.

  Robert Schumann

  Vanity, Different, Pieces

  Robert Schumann (1860). “Advice to Young Musicians”, p.20

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• Let your intimate friends be chosen from such as are better informed than yourself.

  Robert Schumann

  Intimate, Intimate Friends, Chosen

  Robert Schumann (1860). “Advice to Young Musicians”, p.18

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• Thus it is ever in life. The aims we once pursued no longer satisfy us; we aim, we strive, we aspire, until sight fails, and mind and body find rest in the grave.

  Robert Schumann

  Sight, Mind, Body

  Robert Schumann (2016). “Letters of Robert Schumann”, p.9, Ravenio Books

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• It is the curse of talent that, although it labors with greater steadiness and perseverance than genius, it does not reach its goal, while genius already on the summit of the ideal, gazes laughingly about.

  Robert Schumann

  Perseverance, Goal, Doe

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• Music induces nightingales to sing, pug dogs to yelp.

  Robert Schumann

  Dog, Pug Dogs, Pugs

  Robert Schumann (1891). “Music and Musicians: Essays and Criticisms”

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• I sometimes lack confidence in public, although I am proud enough inwardly.

  Robert Schumann

  Proud, Sometimes, Enough

  Robert Schumann (2016). “Letters of Robert Schumann”, p.39, Ravenio Books

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• That first concept is alway the most naturally and best. The mind errs, the emotion never.

  Robert Schumann

  Mind, Firsts, Emotion

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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 proper place.

  Robert Schumann

  Teamwork, Play, Team Work

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• Only when the form grows clear to you, will the spirit become so too.

  Robert Schumann

  Spirit, Form, Clear

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• Music owes as much to Bach as religion to its founder.

  Robert Schumann

  Founders

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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; because of the praise of friends; because they have looked into a pair of beautiful eyes; or for no reason whatsoever.

  Robert Schumann

  Beautiful, Eye, Piano

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• My symphonies would have reached Opus 100 if I had but written them down... Sometimes I am so full of music, and so overflowing with melody, that I find it simply impossible to write down anything.

  Robert Schumann

  Writing, Symphony, Impossible

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• 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.

  Robert Schumann

  Art, Thinking, Insults You

  Robert Schumann (1860). “Advice to Young Musicians”, p.14

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• Music - so different from painting - is the art which we enjoy most in company with others. A symphony, presented in a room with one other listener, would please him but little.

  Robert Schumann

  Art, Symphony, Different

  Robert Schumann (1983). “On Music and Musicians”, p.45, Univ of California Press

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• Mendelssohn I consider the first musician of the day; I doff my hat to him as my superior. He plays with everything, especially with the grouping of the instruments in the orchestra, but with such ease, delicacy and art, with such mastery throughout.

  Robert Schumann

  Art, Play, Musician

  Robert Schumann (1986). “Schumann: a self-portrait in his own words”

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• I feel so entirely in my element with a full orchestra; even if my mortal enemies were marshalled before me, I could lead them, master them, surround them, or repulse them.

  Robert Schumann

  Enemy, Elements, Orchestra

  Robert Schumann (2016). “Letters of Robert Schumann”, p.30, Ravenio Books

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