Virtuosos Quotes by Frederic Chopin

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Frederic Chopin has 55 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on.
• The earth is suffocating... Swear to make them cut me open, so that I won't be buried alive.
• Sometimes I can only groan, and suffer, and pour out my despair at the piano.
• I really don't know whether any place contains more pianists than Paris, or whether you can find more asses and virtuosos anywhere.
• Put all your soul into it, play the way you feel!
• I am gay on the outside, especially among my own folk (I count Poles my own); but inside something gnaws at me;…
• I'm a revolutionary, money means nothing to me.
• All the same it is being said everywhere that I played too softly, or rather, too delicately for people used to the…
• The Official Bulletin declared that the Poles should be as proud of me as the Germans are of Mozart; obvious nonsense.
• Bach is like an astronomer who, with the help of ciphers, finds the most wonderful stars . . . Beethoven embraced the…
• Nothing is more odious than music without hidden meaning.
• As something has involuntarily crept into my head through my eyes,I love to indulge it, even though it may be all wrong.

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