Chopin--Two embalmers at work upon a minor poetthe scent…

Graphic designers are idea embalmers, loving undertakers preserving bits of data like to many butterflies pinned to felt in a jewel box.

— Paul Saffo

“To market the effectiveness of their services, the embalmers would display real preserved bodies they had plucked from the unknown dead, propping the corpses…

— Caitlin Doughty

Funeralese has had its ups and downs. The word 'morticians,' first used in Embalmers Monthly for February, 1895, was barred by the Chicago Tribune…

— Jessica Mitford

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