Frederic Chopin Quotes About Music
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I'm a revolutionary, money means nothing to me.
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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.
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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.
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Put all your soul into it, play the way you feel!
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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!
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Sometimes I can only groan, and suffer, and pour out my despair at the piano.
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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.
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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.
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