I love music. I have a fondness for Chopin, and I very much like his 'Raindrop Prelude.' — Daniel Tammet Copy Share Image
The Pole listening to Chopin listens to the voice of his whole race. — Ignacy Jan Paderewski Copy Share Image
I got obsessed with classical music, I got obsessed with Chopin, with playing the piano. — Gary Oldman Copy Share Image
A great artist can really enter the logic of any particular mazurka and fully understand the language of Chopin's music. — Rafal Blechacz Copy Share Image
Nostalgia, more than anything, gives us the shudder of our own imperfection. This is why with Chopin we feel so little like… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I used to play the piano by listening to it - like Chopin pieces, when I was, like, a little kid -… — Eliza Coupe Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think, not so much am I a pianist, but a vampire. All my life I have lived off the blood… — Arthur Rubinstein Copy Share Image
My mother Elizabeth Ivey Brubeck was a pianist who studied with Dame Myra Hess and Tobias Matthey. As a child in California… — Dave Brubeck Copy Share Image
“Now and again an echo of Chopin’s music rings in my ears, and this much you absorb me that, at such moments… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Scriabin slept with Chopin under his pillow, and I slept with Wagner under mine. I could not concentrate on memorizing Bach fugues,… — Vladimir Horowitz Copy Share Image
Chopin or Billy Eckstine or Miles Davis - that stuff helps me, more when I've already written and I need a little… — John Leguizamo Copy Share Image
I always try to avoid looking at the section where my books would be shelved, but I do know that my most… — Susan Choi Copy Share Image
They both changed the way we hear the sound of the piano, both of them inventors of sonority: Chopin took bel canto… — Stephen Hough Copy Share Image
I think Bach is equally a romantic composer because he laid the seeds harmonically for people like Chopin and the great Romantics,… — Nigel Kennedy Copy Share Image
It was an unforgettable picture to see Chopin sitting at the piano like a clairvoyant, lost in his dreams; to see how… — Robert Schumann Copy Share Image
I was growing up in a communist time, especially, and the other music, the western music, was banned, so on radio half… — Krzysztof Penderecki Copy Share Image
To me, art almost always speaks more forcefully when it appears in an imperfect, accidental, and fragmentary way, somehow just signaling its… — Witold Gombrowicz Copy Share Image
“I must thank you for it all. I might not have gone but for you, and so have missed the finest study… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“[On Chopin's Preludes :] "His genius was filled with the mysterious sounds of nature, but transformed into sublime equivalents in musical thought,… — George Sand Copy Share Image
If there's one thing I feel very strongly about, it's that there shouldn't be a distinction between pianists who play Ligeti and… — Jeremy Denk Copy Share Image
“Chopin’s theme, a simple descending descant the first time round, articulated itself in the repeat with nuanced embellishment. It was music remembering… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
“Love is an art, Berk. Just like painting or music. Some painters draw mere lines, scratches on the canvas and call them… — T. Afsin Ilgar Copy Share Image
“Kalkbrenner has made me an offer; that I should study with him for three years, and he will make something really -… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Chopin is a great composer who influenced many, many important composers. He was a great innovator, especially in harmony. — Krzysztof Penderecki Copy Share Image
I was like, I can't believe I get to be in a scene with Meryl Streep [in Florence Foster Jenkins]! And then… — Simon Helberg Copy Share Image
My mother was a very talented pianist, and she was a music teacher who hated to teach music, actually, but she loved… — Peter C. Doherty Copy Share Image
I play the piano and have been playing since I was 7, mainly classical Chopin, Beethoven, Mozart. — Kiana Tom Copy Share Image
I do not sing nor play, but I adore music, particularly Chopin. I like him because I cannot understand him. — Mary MacLane Copy Share Image
Chopin was an invalid, as you know, but his music was volcanic. — Ignacy Jan Paderewski Copy Share Image
It's important to play the pieces that you feel you can play well. It was always my dream to play Bach -… — Rafal Blechacz Copy Share Image
Hats off, gentlemen - a genius! If the mighty autocrat of the north knew what a dangerous enemy threatened him in Chopin's… — Frederic Chopin Copy Share Image
I really don't think I have that much of the gift; I have a little bit, but I wish I were Schubert… — Gian Carlo Menotti 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
“Something flickered in the distance, dressing the darkness in a soft veil of blue. Out of the blue came an explosion of… — Ella Leya Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, I'd practise Chopin on piano - and I love Chopin! He's my dawg! Then I'd go out… — Alicia Keys Copy Share Image
Chopin's rubato possessed an unshakeable emotional logic. It always justified itself by a strengthening or weakening melodic line, by exaggeration or affectation. — Karol Mikuli Copy Share Image
Liszt commenting on the music of Frédéric Chopin: He confided . . . those inexpressible sorrows to which the pious give vent… — Frederic Chopin Copy Share Image