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People Quotes by Frederic Chopin
- 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…
- Yesterday's concert was a success. I hasten to let you know. I inform your Lordship that I was not a bit nervous and played as…
- They want me to give another concert but I have no desire to do so. You cannot imagine what a torture the three days before…
- There are certain times when I feel more inspired, filled with a strong power that forces me to listen to my inner voice, and when…
- A strange adventure befell me while I was playing my Sonata in B flat minor before some English friends. I had played the Allegro and…
- One needs only to study a certain positioning of the hand in relation to the keys to obtain with ease the most beautiful sounds, to…
- I don't know where there can be so many pianists as in Paris, so many asses and so many virtuosi.
- I haven't heard anything so great for a long time; Beethoven snaps his fingers at the whole world...
- I have met a great celebrity, Madame Dudevant, known as George Sand... Her appearance is not to my liking. Indeed there is something about her…
- I don't know how it is, but the Germans are amazed at me and I am amazed at them for finding anything to be amazed…
- Among the numerous pleasures of Vienna the hotel evenings are famous. During supper Strauss or Lanner play waltzes...After every waltz they get huge applause; and…
- Here, waltzes are called works! And Strauss and Lanner, who play them for dancing, are called Kapellmeistern. This does not mean that everyone thinks like…
- It's a huge Carthusian monastery, stuck down between rocks and sea, where you may imagine me, without white gloves or hair curling, as pale as…
- After a rest in Edinburgh, where, passing a music-shop, I heard some blind man playing a mazurka of mine...
- England is a country of pianos, they are everywhere.
- Here, whatever is not boring is not English.
- 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…
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