Frederic Chopin Quotes About Music

Quotes about: Music

• Put all your soul into it, play the way you feel!

  Frederic Chopin

  Life, Motivational, Music

• Sometimes I can only groan, and suffer, and pour out my despair at the piano.

  Frederic Chopin

  Life, Music, Piano

  Frederic Chopin (2013). “Chopin's Letters”, p.149, Courier Corporation

• Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art.

  Frederic Chopin

  Music, Art, Simple

  "If Not God, Then What? Neuroscience, Aesthetics, and the Origins of the Transcendent". Book by Joshua Fost (p. 93), November 16, 2007.

• 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.

  Frederic Chopin

  Music, Communication, Giving

• It is dreadful when something weighs on your mind, not to have a soul to unburden yourself to. You know what I mean. I tell my piano the things I used to tell you.

  Frederic Chopin

  Life, Music, Philosophy

• To be a great composer requires immense experience... One acquires this by listening not only to other men's work, but above all to one's own!

  Frederic Chopin

  Music, Men, Listening

• I'm a revolutionary, money means nothing to me.

  Frederic Chopin

  Life, Music, Money

  "Chopin". Book by Arthur Hedley,, 1947.

• I am not fitted to give concerts. The audience intimidates me, I feel choked by its breath, paralyzed by its curious glances, struck dumb by all those strange faces.

  Frederic Chopin

  Music, Giving, Dumb

  "It'll be alright on the night: how musicians cope with performance stress" by David Cox, www.theguardian.com. September 8, 2015.

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