After a rest in Edinburgh, where, passing a music-shop, I heard some blind man playing a mazurka of mine... — Frederic Chopin Copy Share Image
I am not fitted to give concerts. The audience intimidates me, I feel choked by its breath, paralyzed by its curious glances,… — Frederic Chopin Copy Share Image
Concerts are never real music, you have to give up the idea of hearing in them all the most beautiful things of… — Frederic Chopin Copy Share Image
They want me to give another concert but I have no desire to do so. You cannot imagine what a torture the… — Frederic Chopin Copy Share Image
All the same it is being said everywhere that I played too softly, or rather, too delicately for people used to the… — Frederic Chopin Copy Share Image
The Official Bulletin declared that the Poles should be as proud of me as the Germans are of Mozart; obvious nonsense. — Frederic Chopin Copy Share Image
I haven't heard anything so great for a long time; Beethoven snaps his fingers at the whole world... — Frederic Chopin Copy Share Image
I don't know where there can be so many pianists as in Paris, so many asses and so many virtuosi. — Frederic Chopin Copy Share Image
My piano has not yet arrived. How did you send it? By Marseilles or by Perpignan? I dream music but I cannot… — Frederic Chopin Copy Share Image
Yesterday's concert was a success. I hasten to let you know. I inform your Lordship that I was not a bit nervous… — Frederic Chopin Copy Share Image
I have met a great celebrity, Madame Dudevant, known as George Sand... Her appearance is not to my liking. Indeed there is… — Frederic Chopin Copy Share Image
I could express my feelings more easily if they could be put into the notes of music, but as the very best… — Frederic Chopin Copy Share Image
Here, waltzes are called works! And Strauss and Lanner, who play them for dancing, are called Kapellmeistern. This does not mean that… — Frederic Chopin Copy Share Image
England is so surrounded by the boredom of conventionalities, that it is all one to them whether music is good or bad,… — Frederic Chopin Copy Share Image
There are certain times when I feel more inspired, filled with a strong power that forces me to listen to my inner… — Frederic Chopin Copy Share Image
One needs only to study a certain positioning of the hand in relation to the keys to obtain with ease the most… — Frederic Chopin Copy Share Image
It's a huge Carthusian monastery, stuck down between rocks and sea, where you may imagine me, without white gloves or hair curling,… — Frederic Chopin Copy Share Image
Among the numerous pleasures of Vienna the hotel evenings are famous. During supper Strauss or Lanner play waltzes...After every waltz they get… — Frederic Chopin Copy Share Image
A strange adventure befell me while I was playing my Sonata in B flat minor before some English friends. I had played… — Frederic Chopin Copy Share Image
I don't know how it is, but the Germans are amazed at me and I am amazed at them for finding anything… — Frederic Chopin Copy Share Image
We fell silent and all joking ceased. We gazed mutely into each other's eyes and an intense longing for the fullest avowal of the… — Frederic Chopin Copy Share
If I were still stupider than I am, I should think myself at the apex of my career; yet I know how much I… — Frederic Chopin Copy Share
England is so surrounded by the boredom of conventionalities, that it is all one to them whether music is good or bad, since they… — Frederic Chopin Copy Share
They want me to give another concert but I have no desire to do so. You cannot imagine what a torture the three days… — Frederic Chopin Copy Share
Oh, how miserable it is to have no one to share your sorrows and joys, and, when your heart is heavy, to have no… — Frederic Chopin Copy Share
I could express my feelings more easily if they could be put into the notes of music, but as the very best concert would… — Frederic Chopin Copy Share
If the newspapers cut me up so much that I shall not venture before the world again, I have resolved to become a house… — Frederic Chopin Copy Share
Man is never always happy, and very often only a brief period of happiness is granted him in this world; so why escape from… — Frederic Chopin Copy Share
You already know when I'm writing, so don't be surprised if it's short and dry, because I'm too hungry to write anything fat — Frederic Chopin Copy Share
I don't know where there can be so many pianists as in Paris, so many asses and so many virtuosi. — Frederic Chopin Copy Share
Bach is an astronomer, discovering the most marvellous stars. Beethoven challenges the universe. I only try to express the soul and the heart of… — Frederic Chopin Copy Share
The earth is suffocating... Swear to make them cut me open, so that I won't be buried alive. — Frederic Chopin Copy Share
The last thing is simplicity. After having gone through all the difficulties, having played an endless number of notes, it is simplicity that matters,… — Frederic Chopin Copy Share
