Robert SchumannThinkers

Composing is just remembering a little melody that no one has come up with before.

Composing is to remember music that has never been written.

Composing is easy. All you need to do is remember a tune that nobody else has thought of.

A Genius is perhaps the only one who can truly understand Genius.

Genius's principal mark is not perfection, but originality.

Genius is differentiated from talent in this: talent works, genius creates.

Music is always the language which permits one to converse with the Beyond.

Music is a field which owes as much to Bach as religion to its founder.

Music is a stuff that induces nightingales to sing, pug dogs to yelp.

Music is - so different from painting - 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.