Frederic Chopin Quotes

Vienna is a handsome, lively city, and pleases me exceedingly.

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• Play Mozart in memory of me - and I will hear you.

  

  Frederic Chopin
  • Memory
  • Hear
  • Mozart

• I shall create a new world for myself.

  

  Frederic Chopin
  • World

• 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.

  

  Frederic Chopin
  • Art
  • Achievement
  • Simplicity

• Nothing is more odious than music without hidden meaning.

  

  Frederic Chopin
  • Music
  • Meaning

• Even in winter it shall be green in my heart.

  

  Frederic Chopin
  • Heart
  • Green
  • Winter

• Sometimes I can only groan, and suffer, and pour out my despair at the piano!

  

  Frederic Chopin

• Oh, how miserable it is to have no one to share your sorrows and joys, and, when your heart is heavy, to have no soul to whom you can pour out your woes.

  

  Frederic Chopin
  • Heart
  • Soul

• I don't know how it is, but the Germans are amazed at me and I am amazed at them for finding anything to be amazed about.

  

  Frederic Chopin
  • Amazed
  • Germans
  • I Don't Know

• Among the numerous pleasures of Vienna the hotel evenings are famous. During supper Strauss or Lanner play waltzes...After every waltz they get huge applause; and if they play a Quodlibet, or jumble of opera, song and dance, the hearers are so overjoyed that they don't know what to do with themselves. It shows the corrupt taste of the Viennese public.

  

  Frederic Chopin
  • Play
  • Dance
  • Applause

• 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.

  

  Frederic Chopin
  • Heart
  • Help
  • Universe

• As long as I have health and strength, I will gladly work all my days.

  

  Frederic Chopin
  • Work
  • Long
  • Health

• I am gay on the outside, especially among my own folk (I count Poles my own); but inside something gnaws at me; some presentiment, anxiety, dreams - or sleeplessness - melancholy, indifference - desire for life, and the next instant, desire for death; some kind of sweet peace, some kind of numbness, absent-mindedness.

  

  Frederic Chopin
  • Desire
  • Gay
  • Melancholy

• 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.

  

  Frederic Chopin
  • Truth
  • Eyes
  • Tears

• 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.

  

  Frederic Chopin
  • Success
  • Play
  • Lordship

• Mozart encompasses the entire domain of musical creation, but I've got only the keyboard in my poor head.

  

  Frederic Chopin
  • Creation
  • Musical
  • Mozart

• 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
  • Challenges
  • Stars
  • Discovering

• The crowd intimidates me, its breath suffocates me. I feel paralyzed by its curious look, and the unknown faces make me dumb.

  

  Frederic Chopin
  • Unknown
  • Dumb

• 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
  • Eyes
  • Wrong
  • Crept

• England is so surrounded by the boredom of conventionalities, that it is all one to them whether music is good or bad, since they have to hear it from morning till night. For here they have flower-shows with music, dinners with music, sales with music.

  

  Frederic Chopin
  • Music
  • Sales
  • England

• 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
  • World
  • Long
  • Why

• 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
  • Up
  • World
  • House

• My manuscripts sleep, while I cannot, for I am covered with poultices.

  

  Frederic Chopin
  • Sleep
  • Manuscripts
  • Poultices

• Bach is like an astronomer who, with the help of ciphers, finds the most wonderful stars.

  

  Frederic Chopin
  • Help
  • Stars
  • Astronomer

• One needs only to study a certain positioning of the hand in relation to the keys to obtain with ease the most beautiful sounds, to know how to play long notes and short notes and to achieve certain unlimited dexterity. A well formed technique, it seems to me, can control and vary a beautiful sound quality.

  

  Frederic Chopin
  • Control
  • Play
  • Study