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All the same it is being said everywhere that I played too softly, or rather, too delicately for people used to the piano-pounding of the artists here.
Frederic Chopin
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Frederic Chopin
Age: 39 †
Born: 1810
Born: March 1
Died: 1849
Died: October 17
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Frédéric François Chopin
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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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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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Oh, how hard it must be to die anywhere but in ones birthplace.
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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.
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When one does a thing, it appears good, otherwise one would not write it. Only later comes reflection, and one discards or accepts the thing. Time is the best censor, and patience a most excellent teacher.
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Nothing is more beautiful than a guitar, except, possibly two.
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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
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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.
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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.
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Time is the best of critics and patience the best of teachers.
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As long as I have health and strength, I will gladly work all my days.
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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.
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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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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.
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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.
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The earth is suffocating... Swear to make them cut me open, so that I won't be buried alive.
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The Official Bulletin declared that the Poles should be as proud of me as the Germans are of Mozart obvious nonsense.
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Simplicity is the highest goal, achievable when you have overcome all difficulties.
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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
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As something has involuntarily crept into my head through my eyes,I love to indulge it, even though it may be all wrong.
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