"Play always as if in the presence of a master."

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Source : Robert Schumann (1860). “Advice to Young Musicians”, p.10

Robert Schumann

#Play Quotes #Masters Quotes

“Time is the inexplicable raw material of everything. With it, all is possible, without it nothing. The supply of time is truly a daily miracle, an affair genuinely astonishing when one examines it.”
“Once you have found the right shot to introduce the scene-written your first declarative sentence-then the rest flows. You've found the key to the whole scene.”
“Your partner cannot fault you for refusing to host a perpetual-motion party or for the fact that you must sleep and will eventually die.”
“We must work passionately and indefatigably to bridge the gulf between our scientific progress and our moral progress. One of the great problems of mankind is that we suffer from a poverty of the spirit which stands in glaring contrast to our scientific and technological abundance. The richer we have become materially, the poorer we have become morally and spiritually.”
“I'm as American as Chevrolet.”
“A peacetime draft is the most un-American thing I know.”
“The behaviour of lovers is oscillating like the moon, and unpredictable as the weather...”
“I think swag is very important to rappers. It's the overall appearance and style of an artist - these blue shorts and this blue hat and this $80,000 chain, this jewelry and all these tattoos, that's swag.”

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