Frederic Chopin Quotes About Philosophy

Quotes about: Philosophy

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

  Frederic Chopin

  Life, Motivational, Music

• I wish I could throw off the thoughts which poison my happiness, but I take a kind of pleasure in indulging them.

  Frederic Chopin

  Life, Philosophy, Wish

  "Chopin". Book by George Richard Marek, Arthur Maling and Maria Gordon-Smith, 1978.

• I am gay on the outside, especially among my own folk (I count Poles my own); but inside something gnaws at me; some presentiment, anxiety, dreams - or sleeplessness - melancholy, indifference - desire for life, and the next instant, desire for death; some kind of sweet peace, some kind of numbness, absent-mindedness.

  Frederic Chopin

  Life, Dream, Sweet

  Frederic Chopin (2013). “Chopin's Letters”, p.166, Courier Corporation

• 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

• When one does a thing, it appears good, otherwise one would not write it. Only later comes reflection, and one discards or accepts the thing. Time is the best censor, and patience a most excellent teacher.

  Frederic Chopin

  Life, Teacher, Philosophy

• I feel like a novice, just as I felt before I knew anything of the keyboard. It is far too original, and I shall end up not being able to learn it myself.

  Frederic Chopin

  Life, Philosophy, Novices

• If I were still stupider than I am, I should think myself at the apex of my career; yet I know how much I still lack, to reach perfection; I see it the more clearly now that I live only among first-rank artists and know what each one of them lacks.

  Frederic Chopin

  Life, Philosophy, Artist

  Frederic Chopin (2013). “Chopin's Letters”, p.169, Courier Corporation

• Having nothing to do, I am correcting the Paris edition of Bach; not only the engraver's mistakes, but also the mistakes hallowed by those who are supposed to understand Bach (I have no pretensions to understand better, but I do think that sometimes I can guess).

  Frederic Chopin

  Life, Philosophy, Mistake

  Frederic Chopin (2013). “Chopin's Letters”, p.205, Courier Corporation

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

  Frederic Chopin

  Life, Music, Money

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

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