Robert Schumann Quotes - Page 3

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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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• Does it not seem as if Mozart's works become fresher and fresher the oftener we hear them?

  Robert Schumann

  Doe, Seems, Ifs

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• An evil fate has deprived me of the full use of my right hand, so that I am not able to play my compositions as I feel them. The trouble with my hand is that certain fingers have become so weak, probably through writing and playing too much at one time, that I can hardly use them.

  Robert Schumann

  Writing, Fate, Hands

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

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• Believe me, were I ever to accomplish anything, it would be in music, which has always attracted me; and, without overestimating myself, I am conscious of possessing a certain creative faculty.

  Robert Schumann

  Believe, Creative, Would Be

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

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• When young, one learns his craftsmanship, may become a young master, and it is youth that is most auspicious for developing certain skills.

  Robert Schumann

  Skills, May, Youth

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• My whole life has been a twenty years struggle between poetry and prose, or, if you like to call it so, Music and Law.

  Robert Schumann

  Struggle, Law, Whole Life

  "Early Letters of Robert Schumann".

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• My heart pounds sickeningly and I turn pale... I often feel as if I were dead... I seem to be losing my mind.

  Robert Schumann

  Heart, Mind, Pounds

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• I was a God-fearing child, innocent and physically attractive.

  Robert Schumann

  Children, Innocent, Attractive

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• You should neither play bad compositions, nor, unless compelled, listen to them.

  Robert Schumann

  Play, Should, Composition

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

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