Clara Schumann

Clara Schumann, by the way, the virtuoso pianist and composer who was a true life-long friend of Johannes Brahms, also had little use for the church. "Performing was her religion," Jan Swafford observes. "The world saw Clara Schumann as a priestess, something like a saint. If there is such a thing as a secular saint, surely she was one."
"Am I a little child who will suffer herself to be led to the altar as if to school? No! When you think of me as a child, then I stand up and say: You are mistaken!"
Clara Schumann (musician and composer, considered one of the most distinguished pianists of the Romantic era)