"Liszt commenting on the music of Frédéric Chopin:……" — Frederic Chopin
"Liszt commenting on the music of Frédéric Chopin: He confided . . . those inexpressible sorrows to which the pious give vent in their communication with their Maker. What they never say except upon their knees, he said in his palpitating compositions."
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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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If there's one thing I feel very strongly about, it's that there shouldn't be a distinction between pianists who play…
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Liszt's so-called piano music is nothing but Chopin and brandy.
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To me, art almost always speaks more forcefully when it appears in an imperfect, accidental, and fragmentary way, somehow just…
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It was an unforgettable picture to see Chopin sitting at the piano like a clairvoyant, lost in his dreams; to…
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We may be sure that a genius like Mozart, were he born today, would write concertos like Chopin and not…
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After playing Chopin, I feel as if I had been weeping over sins that I had never committed and mourning…
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