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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!
Frederic Chopin
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Frederic Chopin
Age: 39 †
Born: 1810
Born: March 1
Died: 1849
Died: October 17
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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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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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Play Mozart in memory of me - and I will hear you.
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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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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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Simplicity is the highest goal, achievable when you have overcome all difficulties.
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I tell my piano the things I used to tell you
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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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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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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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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.
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Time is the best of critics and patience the best of teachers.
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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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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.
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Oh, how hard it must be to die anywhere but in ones birthplace.
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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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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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I wish I could throw off the thoughts which poison my happiness, but I take a kind of pleasure in indulging them.
Frederic Chopin
After a rest in Edinburgh, where, passing a music-shop, I heard some blind man playing a mazurka of mine.
Frederic Chopin
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.
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