Schumann Quotes
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Schumann Quotes & Sayings
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That first concept is alway the most naturally and best. The mind errs, the emotion never.
— Robert Schumann
Talent works, genius creates.
— Robert Schumann
Does it not seem as if Mozart's works become fresher and fresher the oftener we hear them?
— Robert Schumann
When you play, do not trouble yourself as to who is listening. Yet always play as though a master listened to you.
— Robert Schumann
Why hurry over beautiful things? Why not linger and enjoy them?
— Clara Schumann
Let your intimate friends be chosen from such as are better informed than yourself.
— Robert Schumann
Is an artist much more than a beggar?
— Clara Schumann
To compose is to remember music that has never been written.
— Robert Schumann
The tea is ice-cold, the room grows colder and colder, but I grow warmer and warmer.
— Clara Schumann
There is nothing greater than the joy of composing something oneself and then listening to it.
— Clara Schumann
For me, music is always the language which permits one to converse with the Beyond.
— Robert Schumann
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
We may be sure that a genius like Mozart, were he born today, would write concertos like Chopin and not like Mozart.
— Robert Schumann
"We liked it" or "I didn't like it" people say. As if it were nothing higher than to please the people!
— Robert Schumann
Music owes as much to Bach as religion to its founder.
— Robert Schumann
Endeavour to play easy pieces well and with elegance; that is better than to play difficult pieces badly.
— Robert Schumann
If all would play first violin, we could not obtain an orchestra. Therefore esteem every musician in his place.
— Robert Schumann
For me Wagner is impossible ... he talks without ever stopping. One can't just talk all the time.
— Robert Schumann
Treasures are no longer to be got by instrumental art.
— Clara Schumann
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
When you play, never mind who listens to you.
— Robert Schumann
Play always as if in the presence of a master.
— Robert Schumann
I've got great joy from rediscovering Western music. I love Schumann and Chopin, and those amazing symphonies of Bruckner.
— John Tavener
You write to become immortal, or because the piano happens to be open, or you've looked into a pair of beautiful eyes.
— Robert Schumann
By means of industry and perseverance you will rise higher and higher.
— Robert Schumann
One encounters very capable fathers abashed by their piano-playing daughters. Three measures of Schumann make them red with embarrassment.
— Alfred Doblin
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
Schumann's 'Quintet in E flat for Piano and Strings' is one of the sublime moments in Romantic music.
— Robert Gottlieb
God answers every prayer, Rabbi Schumann once told him, years ago. Mostly His answer is 'no'.
— Paul Russell
Only when the form grows clear to you, will the spirit become so too.
— Robert Schumann
The Germans are incapable of any conception of greatness: proof Schumann.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
I was a God-fearing child, innocent and physically attractive.
— Robert Schumann
It is impossible to communicate with Schumann. The man is hopeless; he doesn't talk at all.
— Richard Wagner
My health may be better preserved if I exert myself less, but in the end doesn't each person give his life for his calling?
— Clara Schumann
He gives me the impression of being a spoilt child.(on Liszt) — Clara Schumann
My whole life has been a struggle between Poetry and Prose, or call it Music and Law.
— Robert Schumann
Nothing right can be accomplished in art without enthusiasm.
— Robert Schumann
We have learned to express the more delicate nuances of feeling by penetrating more deeply into the mysteries of harmony.
— Robert Schumann
I am so fresh in soul and spirit that life gushes and bubbles around me in a thousand springs.
— Robert Schumann
I do not want horses or diamonds - I am happy in possessing you.
— Clara Schumann
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
Send light to the dark hearts of men, that is the duty the artist.
— Robert Schumann
Know what you want to do - then do it. Make straight for your goal and go undefeated in spirit to the end.
— Ernestine Schumann-Heink
I wish to lead a life free from care, and I see that I shall be unhappy if I cannot always work at my art.
— Clara Schumann
Music induces nightingales to sing, pug dogs to yelp.
— Robert Schumann
Art was not created as a way to riches. Strive to become a true artist; all else will take care of itself.
— Robert Schumann
I cannot be so bad when everybody is so fond of me.
— Clara Schumann
I will yield to popular demands only insofar as they do not betray my own convictions.
— Clara Schumann
Without enthusiasm nothing great can be effected in art.
— Robert Schumann
Perhaps only a Genius can truly understand Genius.
— Robert Schumann