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Music Quotes by Frederic Chopin
- Nothing is more odious than music without hidden meaning.
- 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!
- Liszt commenting on the music of Frédéric Chopin: He confided . . . those inexpressible sorrows to which the pious give vent in their communication…
- After a rest in Edinburgh, where, passing a music-shop, I heard some blind man playing a mazurka of mine...
- My piano has not yet arrived. How did you send it? By Marseilles or by Perpignan? I dream music but I cannot make any because…
- England is so surrounded by the boredom of conventionalities, that it is all one to them whether music is good or bad, since they have…
- It is dreadful when something weighs on your mind, not to have a soul to unburden yourself to. You know what I mean. I tell…
- Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning…
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