Frederic Chopin Quotes - Page 2

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• The earth is suffocating... Swear to make them cut me open, so that I won't be buried alive.

  Frederic Chopin

  Cutting, Tuberculosis, Alive

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

  Frederic Chopin

  Life, Music, Money

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

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• A strange adventure befell me while I was playing my Sonata in B flat minor before some English friends. I had played the Allegro and the Scherzo more or less correctly. I was about to attack the March when suddenly I saw arising from the body of my piano those cursed creatures which had appeared to me one lugubrious night at the Chartreuse. I had to leave for one instant to pull myself together after which I continued without saying anything.

  Frederic Chopin

  Adventure, Night, Piano

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• The three most celebrated doctors on the island have been to see me. One sniffed at what I spat, the second tapped where I spat from, and the third sounded me and listened as I spat. The first said I was dead, the second that I was dying and the third that I'm going to die.

  Frederic Chopin

  Death, Health, Islands

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• I could express my feelings more easily if they could be put into the notes of music, but as the very best concert would not cover my affection for you, dear daddy, I must use the simple words of my heart, to lay before you my utmost gratitude and filial affection

  Frederic Chopin

  Gratitude, Heart, Simple

  Frederic Chopin (2013). “Chopin's Letters”, p.4, Courier Corporation

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• One needs only to study a certain positioning of the hand in relation to the keys to obtain with ease the most beautiful sounds, to know how to play long notes and short notes and to achieve certain unlimited dexterity. A well formed technique, it seems to me, can control and vary a beautiful sound quality.

  Frederic Chopin

  Beautiful, Keys, Hands

  "Chopin : Pianist and Teacher as Seen by His Pupils". Book by Jean-Jacques Eigeldinger, 1986.

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• I don't know how it is, but the Germans are amazed at me and I am amazed at them for finding anything to be amazed about.

  Frederic Chopin

  People, Concerts, Amazed

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• 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

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• 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

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• After a rest in Edinburgh, where, passing a music-shop, I heard some blind man playing a mazurka of mine.

  Frederic Chopin

  Men, People, Edinburgh

  Frederic Chopin (2013). “Chopin's Letters”, p.375, Courier Corporation

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• 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

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• 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

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• Mozart encompasses the entire domain of musical creation,
  but I've got only the keyboard in my poor head.

  Frederic Chopin

  Musical, Keyboards, Creation

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• There are certain times when I feel more inspired, filled with a strong power that forces me to listen to my inner voice, and when I feel more need than ever for a Pleyel piano.

  Frederic Chopin

  Strong, Voice, Piano

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• I haven't heard anything so great for a long time; Beethoven snaps his fingers at the whole world.

  Frederic Chopin

  Long, People, World

  Frederic Chopin (2013). “Chopin's Letters”, p.72, Courier Corporation

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• If the newspapers cut me up so much that I shall not venture before the world again, I have resolved to become a house painter; that would be as easy as anything else, and I should, at any rate, still be an artist!

  Frederic Chopin

  Cutting, Artist, House

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• My manuscripts sleep, while I cannot, for I am covered with poultices.

  Frederic Chopin

  Death, Health, Sleep

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• The Official Bulletin declared that the Poles should be as proud of me as the Germans are of Mozart; obvious nonsense.

  Frederic Chopin

  People, Proud, Nonsense

  Frederic Chopin (2013). “Chopin's Letters”, p.80, Courier Corporation

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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 all wrong.

  Frederic Chopin

  Eye, May, Through My Eyes

  Frederic Chopin (2013). “Chopin's Letters”, p.89, Courier Corporation

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• Among the numerous pleasures of Vienna the hotel evenings are famous. During supper Strauss or Lanner play waltzes...After every waltz they get huge applause; and if they play a Quodlibet, or jumble of opera, song and dance, the hearers are so overjoyed that they don't know what to do with themselves. It shows the corrupt taste of the Viennese public.

  Frederic Chopin

  Song, Play, People

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• It's a huge Carthusian monastery, stuck down between rocks and sea, where you may imagine me, without white gloves or hair curling, as pale as ever, in a cell with such doors as Paris never had for gates. The cell is the shape of a tall coffin, with an enormous dusty vaulting, a small window... Bach, my scrawls and waste paper - silence - you could scream - there would still be silence. Indeed, I write to you from a strange place.

  Frederic Chopin

  Writing, Paris, White

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• I have met a great celebrity, Madame Dudevant, known as George Sand... Her appearance is not to my liking. Indeed there is something about her which positively repels me... What an unattractive person La Sand is... Is she really a woman? I'm inclined to doubt it.

  Frederic Chopin

  People, Doubt, Unattractive

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• England is so surrounded by the boredom of conventionalities, that it is all one to them whether music is good or bad, since they have to hear it from morning till night. For here they have flower-shows with music, dinners with music, sales with music.

  Frederic Chopin

  Morning, Flower, Night

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• Chopin was the first piano composer who knew exactly how to make piano sound reach fullness, radiance and grandness. What to regard and what, by all means, to avoid. Chopin was keenly aware of the overtones and he did take care of them so artfully.

  Frederic Chopin

  Voice, Piano, Done

  "Famous Pianists on Frédéric Chopin and Robert Schumann" by G. Henle Verlag, 2010.

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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 virtuosos anywhere.

  Frederic Chopin

  Paris, Musical, Ass

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