"I have met a great celebrity, Madame Dudevant,……" — Frederic Chopin
"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 which positively repels me... What an unattractive person La Sand is... Is she really a woman? I'm inclined to doubt it."
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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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I really don't know whether any place contains more pianists than Paris, or whether you can find more asses and…
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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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All the same it is being said everywhere that I played too softly, or rather, too delicately for people used…
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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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Bach is like an astronomer who, with the help of ciphers, finds the most wonderful stars . . . Beethoven…
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Nothing is more odious than music without hidden meaning.
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As something has involuntarily crept into my head through my eyes,I love to indulge it, even though it may be…
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