Liszt commenting on the music of Frédéric Chopin: He confided . . . those inexpressible sorrows to which the pious give vent in their communication with their Maker. What they never say except upon their knees, he said in his palpitating compositions.

Frederic Chopin

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Put all your soul into it, play the way you feel!

Frederic Chopin

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Simplicity is the highest goal, achievable when you have overcome all difficulties.

Frederic Chopin

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Nothing is more odious than music without hidden meaning.

Frederic Chopin

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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.

Frederic Chopin

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The last thing is simplicity. After having gone through all the difficulties, having played an endless number of notes, it is simplicity that matters, with all its charm. It is the final seal on Art. Anyone who strives for this to begin with will be disappointed. You cannot begin at the end.

Frederic Chopin

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I tell my piano the things I used to tell you

Frederic Chopin

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Even in winter it shall be green in my heart.

Frederic Chopin

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

Frederic Chopin

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Nothing is more beautiful than a guitar, except, possibly two.

Frederic Chopin

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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

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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

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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

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

Frederic 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.

Frederic Chopin

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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

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Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on.

Frederic Chopin

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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.

Frederic Chopin

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A long time ago I decided that my universe will be the soul and heart of man.

Frederic Chopin

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After a rest in Edinburgh, where, passing a music-shop, I heard some blind man playing a mazurka of mine.

Frederic Chopin

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