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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.
Frederic Chopin
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Frederic Chopin
Age: 39 †
Born: 1810
Born: March 1
Died: 1849
Died: October 17
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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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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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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.
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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?
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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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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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My manuscripts sleep, while I cannot, for I am covered with poultices.
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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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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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Play Mozart in memory of me - and I will hear you.
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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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Concerts are never real music, you have to give up the idea of hearing in them all the most beautiful things of art.
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Yesterday's concert was a success. I hasten to let you know. I inform your Lordship that I was not a bit nervous and played as I play when I am alone. It went well... and I had to come back and bow four times.
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Nothing is more beautiful than a guitar, except, possibly two.
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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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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!
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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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I'm a revolutionary, money means nothing to me.
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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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Mozart encompasses the entire domain of musical creation, but I've got only the keyboard in my poor head.
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