Frederic Chopin Quotes

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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!

    Cutting   Artist   House  
  • 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.

    Stars   Heart   Men  
  • Here, whatever is not boring is not English.

    Frederic Chopin (2013). “Chopin's Letters”, p.362, Courier Corporation
  • My piano has not yet arrived. How did you send it? By Marseilles or by Perpignan? I dream music but I cannot make any because here there are not any pianos . . . in this respect this is a savage country.

    Dream   Country   Piano  
    "Fryderyk Chopin, Korespondencja Fryderyka Chopina". Book by Bronisław Edward Sydow, (2 vols.), Vol. 1, p. 443, 1955.
  • You already know when I'm writing, so don't be surprised if it's short and dry, because I'm too hungry to write anything fat

    Writing   Dry   Hungry  
    Frederic Chopin (2013). “Chopin's Letters”, p.19, Courier Corporation
  • 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.

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

    Life   Music   Money  
    "Chopin". Book by Arthur Hedley,, 1947.
  • I haven't heard anything so great for a long time; Beethoven snaps his fingers at the whole world.

    Long   People   World  
    Frederic Chopin (2013). “Chopin's Letters”, p.72, Courier Corporation
  • Time is the best of critics; and patience the best of teachers.

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

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

  • 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.

    Stars   Heart   Men  
  • I really don't know whether any place contains more pianists than Paris, or whether you can find more asses and virtuosos anywhere.

    Paris   Musical   Ass  
  • Bach is like an astronomer who, with the help of ciphers, finds the most wonderful stars.

    Stars   Ciphers   Helping  
  • As long as I have health and strength, I will gladly work all my days.

  • 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.

    Writing   Paris   White  
  • Here, waltzes are called works! And Strauss and Lanner, who play them for dancing, are called Kapellmeistern. This does not mean that everyone thinks like that; indeed, nearly everyone laughs about it; but only waltzes get printed.

    Mean   Thinking   Play  
    Frederic Chopin (2013). “Chopin's Letters”, p.137, Courier Corporation
  • 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.

    Song   Play   People  
  • I don't know where there can be so many pianists as in Paris, so many asses and so many virtuosi.

    Paris   People   Ass  
    Frederic Chopin (2013). “Chopin's Letters”, p.154, Courier Corporation
  • The Official Bulletin declared that the Poles should be as proud of me as the Germans are of Mozart; obvious nonsense.

    People   Proud   Nonsense  
    Frederic Chopin (2013). “Chopin's Letters”, p.80, Courier Corporation
  • Nothing is more beautiful than the sound of the guitar.

  • 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.

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

    Death   Memories   Health  
    "The opera reader". Book by Louis Leopold Biancolli (p. 271), 1953.
  • A long time ago I decided that my universe will be the soul and heart of man.

    Heart   Men   Long  
  • 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.

    Life   Dream   Sweet  
    Frederic Chopin (2013). “Chopin's Letters”, p.166, Courier Corporation
  • 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 (2013). “Chopin's Letters”, p.4, Courier Corporation
  • 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.

    Beautiful   Keys   Hands  
    "Chopin : Pianist and Teacher as Seen by His Pupils". Book by Jean-Jacques Eigeldinger, 1986.
  • Nothing is more beautiful than a guitar, except, possibly two.

    Beautiful   Guitar   Two  
  • 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.

    Voice   Piano   Done  
    "Famous Pianists on Frédéric Chopin and Robert Schumann" by G. Henle Verlag, 2010.
  • 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 (2013). “Chopin's Letters”, p.89, Courier Corporation
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