Top 6 Robert Schumann Quotes

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

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

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

The talent works, the genius creates.

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