All Frederic Chopin Quotes
- Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on. Difficulty
- The earth is suffocating... Swear to make them cut me open, so that I won't be buried alive. Alive
- Sometimes I can only groan, and suffer, and pour out my despair at the piano. Despair
- I really don't know whether any place contains more pianists than Paris, or whether you can find more asses and virtuosos anywhere. Any
- Put all your soul into it, play the way you feel! All
- I am gay on the outside, especially among my own folk (I count Poles my own); but inside something gnaws at me; some presentiment, anxiety,… Absent
- I'm a revolutionary, money means nothing to me. Inspirational
- All the same it is being said everywhere that I played too softly, or rather, too delicately for people used to the piano-pounding of the… All
- The Official Bulletin declared that the Poles should be as proud of me as the Germans are of Mozart; obvious nonsense. Bulletin
- Bach is like an astronomer who, with the help of ciphers, finds the most wonderful stars . . . Beethoven embraced the universe with the… Ago
- Nothing is more odious than music without hidden meaning. Funny
- As something has involuntarily crept into my head through my eyes,I love to indulge it, even though it may be all wrong. All
- Simplicity is the final achievement. Achievement
- Even in winter it shall be green in my heart. Green
- Time is the best of critics; and patience the best of teachers. Best
- Nothing is more beautiful than a guitar, except, possibly two. Beautiful
- To be a great composer requires immense experience... One acquires this by listening not only to other men's work, but above all to one's own! Acquires
- Simplicity is the highest goal, achievable when you have overcome all difficulties. Achievable
- 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 truth… All
- Liszt commenting on the music of Frédéric Chopin: He confided . . . those inexpressible sorrows to which the pious give vent in their communication… Chopin
- Bach is like an astronomer who, with the help of ciphers, finds the most wonderful stars. Astronomer
- As long as I have health and strength, I will gladly work all my days. All
- I feel like a novice, just as I felt before I knew anything of the keyboard. It is far too original, and I shall end… Able
- If I were still stupider than I am, I should think myself at the apex of my career; yet I know how much I still… Among
- Having nothing to do, I am correcting the Paris edition of Bach; not only the engraver's mistakes, but also the mistakes hallowed by those who… Bach