My imagination can picture no fairer happiness than to continue living for art. – Clara Schumann
My health may be better preserved if I exert myself less, but in the end doesnt 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
I became a larger than life figure for one reason only. When youre quoted in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, constantly as the expert in the business people assume youre a lot bigger than you are. And then I had to run like hell to catch up with my own image. – Barbara Corcoran