"England is so surrounded by the boredom of……" — Frederic Chopin
"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 to hear it from morning till night. For here they have flower-shows with music, dinners with music, sales with music..."
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Frederic Chopin
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55 Quotes by Frederic Chopin
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Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on.
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The earth is suffocating... Swear to make them cut me open, so that I won't be buried alive.
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Sometimes I can only groan, and suffer, and pour out my despair at the piano.
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Put all your soul into it, play the way you feel!
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I am gay on the outside, especially among my own folk (I count Poles my own); but inside something gnaws…
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I'm a revolutionary, money means nothing to me.
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The Official Bulletin declared that the Poles should be as proud of me as the Germans are of Mozart; obvious…
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Nothing is more odious than music without hidden meaning.
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