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Simplicity is the final achie...

Simplicity is the final achievement.

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 highest goa...

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

Frederic Chopin 63 quotes

Nothing is more beautiful tha...

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

Frederic Chopin 63 quotes

We fell silent and all joking...

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 63 quotes

It is dreadful when something...

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 63 quotes

I feel like a novice, just as...

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.

Frederic Chopin 63 quotes

Bach is an astronomer, discov...

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 63 quotes

Hats off, gentlemen - a geniu...

Hats off, gentlemen - a genius! If the mighty autocrat of the north knew what a dangerous enemy threatened him in Chopin's works in the simple tunes of his mazurkas, he would forbid this music. Chopin's works are canons buried in flowers.

Frederic Chopin 63 quotes

Nothing is more odious than m...

Nothing is more odious than music without hidden meaning.

Frederic Chopin 63 quotes

Liszt commenting on the music...

Liszt commenting on the music of Fr?d?ric 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 63 quotes

England is so surrounded by t...

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 63 quotes

One needs only to study a cer...

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 63 quotes

I could express my feelings m...

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 63 quotes

There are certain times when ...

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 63 quotes

To be a great composer requir...

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 63 quotes

A long time ago I decided tha...

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

Frederic Chopin 63 quotes

If I were still stupider than...

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 63 quotes

I am not fitted to give conce...

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 63 quotes

I really don't know whether a...

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 63 quotes

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