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Robert Schumann Quotes about Writing

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You write to become immortal, or because the piano happens to be open, or you've looked into a pair of beautiful eyes.

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
Beautiful, Writing, Eye

In order to compose, all you need to do is remember a tune that nobody else has thought of.

Robert Schumann
Funny, Music, Writing
"Dictionary of Humorous Quotations" edited by Evan Esar, (p. 156), 1949.

We may be sure that a genius like Mozart, were he born today, would write concertos like Chopin and not like Mozart.

Robert Schumann
Writing, Genius, May

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

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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