Quotes from Frederic Chopin

I wish I could throw off the thoughts which poison my happiness.

My earthly body has been a terrible disappointment to me.

I wish I could throw off the thoughts that poison my happiness, and yet I love to indulge in them;

So, having dried my tear-swollen eyelids, I take up my pen to inquire of you, are you alive or did you die? If you are dead, please let me know, and I will tell the cook, for ever since she heard about it she has been saying her prayers.

I tell you piano the things I used to tell you

You know how easily things grow out of nothing, when they pass through a mouth that smears them all over and makes something else out of them—

One can't have everything in this world; be content with the greatest of joys: health.

Youth is an obligation; that is to say, you have an absolute duty to be happy and to preserve a good memory of yourself for one who loves you.

To die is man's finest action - and what might be his worst? To be born.

Prostota to ostatnie osi?gni?cie. Po zagraniu ogromnej ilo?ci nut i wi?kszej ilo?ci nut, prostota staje si? ukoronowaniem sztuki. (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.)

Bach é um astrônomo, descobrindo as estrelas mais maravilhosas. Beethoven desafia o universo. Eu apenas tento expressar a alma e o coração do homem. Frédéric Chopin

Chaque difficulté sera un fantôme qui perturbera votre repos plus tard.

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.

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

Zaman en iyi yarg?ç, sab?r e?siz bir ö?retmendir.

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

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

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

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!

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

Oh, how hard it must be to die anywhere but in one's birthplace.

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.

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!

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