Robert Schumann Quotes - Page 3

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

  Robert Schumann

  Children, Innocent, Attractive

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