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Nothing is more beautiful than the sound of the guitar.
Frederic Chopin
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Frederic Chopin
Age: 39 †
Born: 1810
Born: March 1
Died: 1849
Died: October 17
Composer
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Frédéric François Chopin
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Fryderyk Chopin
Frederic Chopin
Fryderyk Franciszek Chopin
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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 earth is suffocating... Swear to make them cut me open, so that I won't be buried alive.
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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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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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Time is the best of critics and patience the best of teachers.
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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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