I wish to lead a life free from care, and I see that I shall be unhappy if I cannot always work at my art. – Clara Schumann
The tea is ice-cold, the room grows colder and colder, but I grow warmer and warmer. – Clara Schumann
My health may be better preserved if I exert myself less, but in the end doesn’t each person give his life for his calling? – Clara Schumann
I cannot give a single concert at which I do not play one piece after the other in an agony of terror because my memory threatens to fail me. This fear torments me for days beforehand. – Clara Schumann
There is nothing greater than the joy of composing something oneself and then listening to it. – Clara Schumann
