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They want me to give another ...

They want me to give another concert but I have no desire to do so. You cannot imagine what a torture the three days before a public appearance are to me.

Frederic Chopin 63 quotes

Simplicity is the highest goa...

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

Frederic Chopin 63 quotes

It's a huge Carthusian monast...

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 63 quotes

Simplicity is the final achie...

Simplicity is the final achievement.

Frederic Chopin 63 quotes

Chopin was the first piano co...

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 63 quotes

The three most celebrated doc...

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 63 quotes

Among the numerous pleasures ...

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 63 quotes

I have met a great celebrity,...

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 63 quotes

The last thing is simplicity....

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 63 quotes

I haven't heard anything so g...

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

Frederic Chopin 63 quotes

Having nothing to do, I am co...

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 63 quotes

A strange adventure befell me...

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 63 quotes

I wish I could throw off the ...

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

Frederic Chopin 63 quotes

Oh, how miserable it is to ha...

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 63 quotes

Sometimes I can only groan, a...

Sometimes I can only groan, and suffer, and pour out my despair at the piano!

Frederic Chopin 63 quotes

Oh, how hard it must be to di...

Oh, how hard it must be to die anywhere but in one's birthplace.

Frederic Chopin 63 quotes

The crowd intimidates me, its...

The crowd intimidates me, its breath suffocates me. I feel paralyzed by its curious look, and the unknown faces make me dumb.

Frederic Chopin 63 quotes

Simplicity is the final achie...

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 63 quotes

If the newspapers cut me up s...

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 63 quotes

I don't know how it is, but t...

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 63 quotes

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