"Yesterday's concert was a success. I hasten to……" — Frederic Chopin
"Yesterday's concert was a success. I hasten to let you know. I inform your Lordship that I was not a bit nervous and played as I play when I am alone. It went well... and I had to come back and bow four times."
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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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