To be a great composer requires immense experience... One acquires this by listening not only to other men's work, but above all… — 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
I really don't know whether any place contains more pianists than Paris, or whether you can find more asses and virtuosos anywhere. — 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
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
Bach is an astronomer, discovering the most marvellous stars. Beethoven challenges the universe. I only try to express the soul and the… — 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
Bach is like an astronomer who, with the help of ciphers, finds the most wonderful stars . . . Beethoven embraced the… — 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
Chopin was the first piano composer who knew exactly how to make piano sound reach fullness, radiance and grandness. What to regard… — Frederic Chopin Copy Share Image
The last thing is simplicity. After having gone through all the difficulties, having played an endless number of notes, it is simplicity… — 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
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
