Robert Schumann Quotes

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

Sometimes I am so full of music, and so overflowing with melody, that I find it simply impossible to write down anything.

Original: Licht senden in die Tiefen des menschlichen Herzens -- des Künstlers Beruf!; Quoted in E.W. Fritzsch (1884) Musikalisches Wochenblatt, Volume 15

To send light into the depths of the human heart -- this is the artist's calling!

Perhaps genius alone understands genius fully. (Sometimes translated as: Perhaps only genius fully understands genius)

The talent works, the genius creates.

If we were all determined to play the first violin we should never have an ensemble. therefore, respect every musician in his proper place.