"I haven't heard anything so great for a……" — Frederic Chopin
"I haven't heard anything so great for a long time; Beethoven snaps his fingers at the whole world..."
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Frederic Chopin
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55 Quotes by Frederic Chopin
Frederic Chopin has 55 quotes on this site.
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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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More Beethoven Quotes
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Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth.
— Ludwig van Beethoven
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What you are, you are by accident of birth; what I am, I am by myself. There are and will…
— Ludwig van Beethoven
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If Beethoven and Bach hooked up with Mozart and made a band, they could be a distant runner up to…
— Jack Black
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Composers in the old days used to keep strictly to the base of the theme, as their real subject. Beethoven…
— Johannes Brahms
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When you hear Bach or Mozart, you hear perfection. Remember that Bach, Mozart and Beethoven were great improvisers. I can…
— Dave Brubeck
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Life can't be all bad when for ten dollars you can buy all the Beethoven sonatas and listen to them…
— William F. Buckley, Jr.
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Beethoven was so hard of hearing, he thought he was a painter.
— George Carlin
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All the charming and beautiful things, from the Song of Songs, to bouillabaisse, and from the nine Beethoven symphonies to…
— H. L. Mencken
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You are no more in your body than Beethoven is inside your radio.
— Deepak Chopra
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Mozart has the classic purity of light and the blue ocean; Beethoven the romantic grandeur which belongs to the storms…
— Henri Frederic Amiel
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How fortunate for civilization, that Beethoven, Michelangelo, Galileo and Faraday were not required by law to attend schools where their…
— Joel Henry Hildebrand
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[Adams] supposed that, except musicians, everyone thought Beethoven a bore, as every one except mathematicians thought mathematics a bore.
— Henry Adams
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