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

More Quotes By Robert Schumann

• For me, music is always the language which permits one to converse with the Beyond.
• To compose is to remember music that has never been written.
• Music induces nightingales to sing, pug dogs to yelp.
• You will be most readily cured of vanity or presumption by studying the history of music, and by...
• If, while at the piano, you attempt to form little melodies, that is very well; but if they...
• If we were all determined to play the first violin we should never have an ensemble. therefore, respect...
• The principal mark of genius is not perfection, but originality.
• To send light into the darkness of men’s hearts – such is the duty of the artist.
• Talent works, genius creates.
• My indifference to money and my spendthrift ways are disgraceful. You have no idea how reckless I am;...
• When you play, never mind who listens to you.
• Nature best teaches how to pray, and how to reverence all the gifts the Almighty has given us....
• Remember, there are more people in the world than yourself. Be modest! You have not yet invented nor...
• Play always as if in the presence of a master.
• In order to compose, all you need to do is remember a tune that nobody else has thought...