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“A relaxed body is a healing body.”

Inspirational Energy Healing Consciousness Mindfulness Wellness Frequency Resonance Self Healing Schumann

Book:The Secret of The Schumann Resonance: When you feel it, You Just Know

Source: The Secret of The Schumann Resonance: When you feel it, You Just Know

“Friedrich desiderò ardentemente Clara, a prescindere dal suo sesso. Prima ancora di sapere cos’era, chi era, sapeva quello che sarebbe stata: la più grande pianista che lui potesse plasmare”

Passione Donna Famiglia Talento Educazione Schumann Denaro Pianista

Book:Clara

Source: Clara

“All of us, more or less, wear masks. Because without masks we can’t survive in this violent world. Beneath an evil-spirit mask lies the natural face of an angel, beneath an angel’s mask lies the face of an evil spirit. It’s impossible to have just one or the other. That’s who we are. And that’s Carnaval. Schumann was able to see the many faces of humanity—the masks and the real faces—because he himself was a deeply divided soul, a person who lived in the stifling gap in between the two.”

Carnaval Schumann

Book:First Person Singular: Stories

Source: First Person Singular: Stories

“Beethoven introduced us to anger. Haydn taught us capriciousness, Rachmaninoff melancholy. Wagner was demonic. Bach was pious. Schumann was mad, and because his genius was able to record his fight for sanity, we heard what isolation and the edge of lunacy sounded like. Liszt was lusty and vigorous and insisted that we confront his overwhelming sexuality as well as our own. Chopin was a poet, and without him we never would have understood what night was, what perfume was, what romance was.”

Music Beethoven Classical Schumann Chopin Composers

Book:The Wild Rose

Source: The Wild Rose

“the study of jurisprudence, by which I must earn my bread, has so withered and frozen the flowers of my fancy that they will never again seek the light. (To his Mother, November 11, 1829)”

Music Piano Schumann

Book:The Letters of Robert Schumann

Source: The Letters of Robert Schumann

“It's rather splendid to think of all those great men and women who appear to have presented symptoms that allow us to describe them as bipolar. Whether it's Hemingway, Van Gogh... Robert Schumann has been mentioned... Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Plath... some of them with rather grim ends.”

Thinking Men Has Beens Ends Men And Women Great Men Symptoms Vans Splendid Virginia Grim Bipolar Woolf Plath Schumann

Author:Stephen Fry

“One encounters very capable fathers abashed by their piano-playing daughters. Three measures of Schumann make them red with embarrassment.”

Culture Three Father Capable Daughter Red Piano Encounters Embarrassment Piano Playing Schumann

Author:Alfred Doblin

“Just as surely as every new language mastered opens up a new world, so knowledge of a Beethoven, a Chopin, or a Schumann opens up a new world in spiritual beauty and thought.”

World Spiritual Language New World Spiritual Beauty Schumann

Author:Ignacy Jan Paderewski

“True originality has its foundations in the soul, not in the mind, and when there is an effort to create something different it is usually a failure. Beethoven or Schumann or Chopin did not try to be original. They were original.”

Trying Mind Different Soul Effort Originals Foundation Originality Schumann

Author:Ignacy Jan Paderewski

“I should also mention that the Neue Galerie is piping music into the galleries where "Klee and America" is hanging, a practice for which vulgar is not even close to the word. Yes, I like Schumann's Carnaval, but I'm damned if I know why anybody thinks the paintings of Paul Klee profit from being viewed with Carnaval playing in the background.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Should America Practice Painting Profit Backgrounds Vulgar Gallery Schumann

Author:Terry Teachout

“Once, somebody asked Robert Schumann to explain the meaning of a certain piece of music he had just played on the piano. What Robert Schumann did was sit back down at the piano and play the piece of music again.”

Play Certain Pieces Piano Schumann

Book:Wittgenstein's mistress

Source: Wittgenstein's mistress

“It is impossible to communicate with Schumann. The man is hopeless; he doesn't talk at all.”

Men Impossible He Man Communicate Hopeless Schumann

Author:Richard Wagner

“The Germans are incapable of any conception of greatness: proof Schumann.”

Culture Greatness Proof Conception Incapable Schumann

Book:Why I am So Wise

Source: Why I am So Wise