Quote

Time is the best of critics and patience the best of teachers.

Frederic Chopin

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Frederic Chopin
Age: 39 †
Born: 1810
Born: March 1
Died: 1849
Died: October 17
Composer
Music Pedagogue
Musician
Pianist
Virtuoso
Baiona
Frédéric François Chopin
Chopin
Fryderyk Chopin
Frederic Chopin
Fryderyk Franciszek Chopin
Fr. Chopin
Teachers
Patience
Critics
Teacher
Best
Time

More quotes by Frederic Chopin

Image
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
Image
The earth is suffocating... Swear to make them cut me open, so that I won't be buried alive.
Frederic Chopin
Image
A long time ago I decided that my universe will be the soul and heart of man.
Frederic Chopin
Image
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
Image
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
Image
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
Image
Nothing is more beautiful than the sound of the guitar.
Frederic Chopin
Image
Simplicity is the highest goal, achievable when you have overcome all difficulties.
Frederic Chopin
Image
Mozart encompasses the entire domain of musical creation, but I've got only the keyboard in my poor head.
Frederic Chopin
Image
Play Mozart in memory of me - and I will hear you.
Frederic Chopin
Image
After a rest in Edinburgh, where, passing a music-shop, I heard some blind man playing a mazurka of mine.
Frederic Chopin
Image
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
Image
I wish I could throw off the thoughts which poison my happiness, but I take a kind of pleasure in indulging them.
Frederic Chopin
Image
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
Image
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
Image
Nothing is more beautiful than a guitar, except, possibly two.
Frederic Chopin
Image
My manuscripts sleep, while I cannot, for I am covered with poultices.
Frederic Chopin
Image
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
Image
The Official Bulletin declared that the Poles should be as proud of me as the Germans are of Mozart obvious nonsense.
Frederic Chopin
Image
Man is never always happy, and very often only a brief period of happiness is granted him in this world so why escape from this dream which cannot last long?
Frederic Chopin