John Worthen > Quotes

“one never lazes about more happily than when one has no idea where to start, in the face of all one has to do, and one never works more happily than when one actually has nothing on hand’.31 But that could hardly have been less true of him at just that moment. Not”
― John Worthen, Robert Schumann: Life and death of a musician

“What made him irresistibly charming – his impulsiveness, his impatience with the dull, his insistence on energy,28 his sense of the comic, the depth of his emotional responses, his intense determination to do things his way, his willingness to try anything – these would have been the very things with which Wieck had the greatest trouble.”
― John Worthen, Robert Schumann: Life and death of a musician