Something flickered in the distance, dressing the darkness…

There is no piece of guitar music that has the formal beauty of a piano sonata by Mozart, or the richly worked out ideas…

— Julian Bream

My mother was a very talented pianist, and she was a music teacher who hated to teach music, actually, but she loved to play,…

— Peter C. Doherty

Scriabin slept with Chopin under his pillow, and I slept with Wagner under mine. I could not concentrate on memorizing Bach fugues, but I…

— Vladimir Horowitz

Chopin, Schubert, and Liszt had no idea of how to write for the piano.

— Glenn Gould

Chopin was a master of melody, harmony and voice leading - the art of smoothly moving from chord to chord.

— John Petrucci

The only work that can be compared to Chopin's Etudes, innovatively, where every note is essential and one becomes completely exposed, is the Brahms-Paganini…

— Carlo Grante

The Pole listening to Chopin listens to the voice of his whole race.

— Ignacy Jan Paderewski

My mother Elizabeth Ivey Brubeck was a pianist who studied with Dame Myra Hess and Tobias Matthey. As a child in California I used…

— Dave Brubeck

I was growing up in a communist time, especially, and the other music, the western music, was banned, so on radio half of the…

— Krzysztof Penderecki

I always try to avoid looking at the section where my books would be shelved, but I do know that my most reliable neighbor…

— Susan Choi

Chopin is a great composer who influenced many, many important composers. He was a great innovator, especially in harmony.

— Krzysztof Penderecki

A great artist can really enter the logic of any particular mazurka and fully understand the language of Chopin's music.

— Rafal Blechacz

“Now and again an echo of Chopin’s music rings in my ears, and this much you absorb me that, at such moments I always…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I love music. I have a fondness for Chopin, and I very much like his 'Raindrop Prelude.'

— Daniel Tammet

They both changed the way we hear the sound of the piano, both of them inventors of sonority: Chopin took bel canto singing lines…

— Stephen Hough