Robert Schumann Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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