Chopin Quote by 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.”
![“[N]ature listens not to the plaints of man, it is callous to his sorrows. Hence man turns away from Nature, … He turns within, that here … he may find audience for his griefs. Here he utters his oppressive secrets; … he gives vent to stifled sighs.” quote by Ludwig Feuerbach](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/4df/ludwig-feuerbach-3406_a-part_n-ature-listens-not-to-the-plaints-of-ma_2060711.jpg)
![“I was like, I can't believe I get to be in a scene with Meryl Streep [in Florence Foster Jenkins]! And then I was like, but why do I have to play Chopin? It's already going to be intimidating.” quote by Simon Helberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/a3b/simon-helberg-6849_believe_i-was-like-i-can-t-believe-i-get-to-be-i_892514.jpg)
![“[On Chopin's Preludes :] "His genius was filled with the mysterious sounds of nature, but transformed into sublime equivalents in musical thought, and not through slavish imitation of the actual external sounds. His composition of that night was surely filled with raindrops, resounding clearly on…” quote by George Sand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/e01/george-sand-1753_chopin_on-chopin-s-preludes-his-genius-was-fill_1439213.jpg)