Chopin Quotes

30 quotes by 26 authors

My mother Elizabeth Ivey Brubeck was a pianist who studied with Dame Myra Hess and Tobias Matthey. As a child in California I used to… — Dave Brubeck
On Saturday afternoons when all the things are done in the house and there's no real work to be done, I play Bach and Chopin… — Maya Angelou
Find a beautiful piece of art. If you fall in love with Van Gogh or Matisse or John Oliver Killens, or if you fall love… — Maya Angelou
It's all magic to me. Country to punk rock, all of it. Chopin to Kurt Cobain. But it always all comes back to punk for… — James Marsters
Michael Ondaatjeâ€™s work taught me how to be at home in fragments, and how to think about a big story in carefully curated vignettes. All… — Amitava Kumar
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 those who play… — Jeremy Denk
Lenny Breau is one of the true geniuses of the guitar. I suppose he is a musician's musician. His knowledge of the instrument and the… — Chet Atkins
Liszt's so-called piano music is nothing but Chopin and brandy. — James Huneker
To me, art almost always speaks more forcefully when it appears in an imperfect, accidental, and fragmentary way, somehow just signaling its presence, allowing one… — Witold Gombrowicz
It was an unforgettable picture to see Chopin sitting at the piano like a clairvoyant, lost in his dreams; to see how his vision communicated… — Robert Schumann
We may be sure that a genius like Mozart, were he born today, would write concertos like Chopin and not like Mozart. — Robert Schumann
After playing Chopin, I feel as if I had been weeping over sins that I had never committed and mourning over tragedies that were not… — Oscar Wilde
Liszt commenting on the music of FrÃ©dÃ©ric Chopin: He confided . . . those inexpressible sorrows to which the pious give vent in their communication… — Frederic Chopin
The music teacher came twice a week to bridge the awful gap between Dorothy and Chopin. — George Ade
I cannot listen to Beethoven or Mahler or Chopin or Bach when I write because those composers require you stop what you are doing and… — Antonio Damasio
I do not sing nor play, but I adore music, particularly Chopin. I like him because I cannot understand him. — Mary MacLane
I used to play the piano by listening to it - like Chopin pieces, when I was, like, a little kid - and then the… — Eliza Coupe
I've not been an admirer of contemporary music since punk rock went off the boil in 1977, but once a year I'll listen to 'Spiral… — Billy Childish
Talking to Lee Child and discovering, from his chapter in The Chopin Manuscript, that he's even more of an audio geek than I am (as… — David Hewson
Musical compositions can be very sad - Chopin - but you have the pleasure of this sadness. The cheap consolation is: you will be happy.… — Umberto Eco

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