Frederic Chopin Quotes

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• Bach is like an astronomer who, with the help of ciphers, finds the most wonderful stars . . . Beethoven embraced the universe with the power of his spirit . . . I do not climb so high. A long time ago I decided that my universe will be the soul and heart of man.

  Frederic Chopin

  Stars, Heart, Men

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• Simplicity is the highest goal, achievable when you have overcome all difficulties.

  Frederic Chopin

  Practice, Goal, Simplicity

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• Time is the best of critics; and patience the best of teachers.

  Frederic Chopin

  Teacher, Time, Critics

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

  Frederic Chopin

  Life, Motivational, Music

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• I tell my piano the things I used to tell you

  Frederic Chopin

  Piano, Used

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• Nothing is more odious than music without hidden meaning.

  Frederic Chopin

  Hidden Meaning

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• Even in winter it shall be green in my heart.

  Frederic Chopin

  Love, Romantic, Spring

  Frederic Chopin (2013). “Chopin's Letters”, p.106, Courier Corporation

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• The last thing is simplicity. After having gone through all the difficulties, having played an endless number of notes, it is simplicity that matters, with all its charm. It is the final seal on Art. Anyone who strives for this to begin with will be disappointed. You cannot begin at the end.

  Frederic Chopin

  Art, Numbers, Simplicity

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• 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

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• Nothing is more beautiful than a guitar, except, possibly two.

  Frederic Chopin

  Beautiful, Guitar, Two

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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

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• Oh, how miserable it is to have no one to share your sorrows and joys, and, when your heart is heavy, to have no soul to whom you can pour out your woes.

  Frederic Chopin

  Heart, Joy, Soul

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• A long time ago I decided that my universe will be the soul and heart of man.

  Frederic Chopin

  Heart, Men, Long

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• Bach is an astronomer, discovering the most marvellous stars. Beethoven challenges the universe. I only try to express the soul and the heart of man.

  Frederic Chopin

  Stars, Heart, Men

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• Simplicity is the final achievement.

  Frederic Chopin

  Simplicity, Design, Achievement

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

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• 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

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• Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on.

  Frederic Chopin

  Inspirational, Motivational, Empathy

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• Play Mozart in memory of me - and I will hear you.

  Frederic Chopin

  Death, Memories, Health

  "The opera reader". Book by Louis Leopold Biancolli (p. 271), 1953.

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• 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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• Man is never always happy, and very often only a brief period of happiness is granted him in this world; so why escape from this dream which cannot last long?

  Frederic Chopin

  Dream, Men, Long

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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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• We fell silent and all joking ceased. We gazed mutely into each other's eyes and an intense longing for the fullest avowal of the truth forced us to a confession, requiring no words whatever, or the incommensurable misfortune that weighed upon us. With tears and sobs we sealed a vow to belong to each other alone.

  Frederic Chopin

  Love, Inspiring, Eye

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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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