Top 10 Most Famous Frédéric Chopin Quotes (BEST)
“How dismal it is to have no one to go to in the morning to share one’s griefs and joys; how hateful when something weighs on you and there’s nowhere to lay it down. You know to what I refer. I often tell to my pianoforte what I want to tell to you.”
Frédéric Chopin


“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.”
Frédéric Chopin


“Virtue and vice have come in the end to the same thing! It seems that to die is man’s finest action – and what might be his worst? To be born, since that is the exact opposite of his best deed.”
Frédéric Chopin


“Give me a kiss, dearest lover. I’m certain that you still love me, and I fear you always, like some tyrant over me. I don’t know why, but I fear you. Upon my word, only you have power over me, you and no one else.”
Frédéric Chopin
11 Thought-Provoking Frédéric Chopin Quotes
“Here you doubtless observe my tendency to do wrong against my will. As something has involuntarily crept into my head through my eyes, I love to indulge it, even though it may be all wrong.”
Frédéric Chopin


“How great a joy I feel in my heart. That a day so pleasant, so dear and glorious begins, a day that I greet with the wish. That long years may pass in happiness. In health and vigor, peacefully, successfully. May the gift of heaven fall richly upon you.”
Frédéric Chopin







3 Frédéric Chopin Quotes About Music



2 Frédéric Chopin Quotes About Being An Artists
“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.”
Frédéric Chopin
“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
7 Frédéric Chopin Quotes On Playing Piano
“There are certain times when I feel more inspired, filled with a strong power that forces me to listen to my inner voice, and when I feel more need than ever for a Pleyel piano.”
Frédéric Chopin


“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


“A strange adventure befell me while I was playing my Sonata in B flat minor before some English friends. I had played the Allegro and the Scherzo more or less correctly. I was about to attack the March when suddenly I saw arising from the body of my piano those cursed creatures which had appeared to me one lugubrious night at the Chartreuse. I had to leave for one instant to pull myself together after which I continued without saying anything.”
Frédéric Chopin
2 Frédéric Chopin Quotes About Beethoven


3 Frédéric Chopin Quotes About Mozart



2 Frédéric Chopin Quotes About Health


2 Frédéric Chopin Quotes On England
“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.”
Frédéric Chopin

2 Frédéric Chopin Quotes About Vienna
“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

4 Frédéric Chopin Quotes On Concerts
“I could express my feelings more easily if they could be put into the notes of music, but as the very best concert would not cover my affection for you, dear daddy, I must use the simple words of my heart, to lay before you my utmost gratitude and filial affection.”
Frederic Chopin


“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
16 Frédéric Chopin Quotes That Will Make You Think
“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.”
Frédéric Chopin


“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


“Here, waltzes are called works! And Strauss and Lanner, who play them for dancing, are called Kapellmeistern. This does not mean that everyone thinks like that; indeed, nearly everyone laughs about it; but only waltzes get printed.”
Frederic Chopin


“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.”
Frédéric Chopin


“I have met a great celebrity, Madame Dudevant, known as George Sand. Her appearance is not to my liking. Indeed there is something about her which positively repels me. What an unattractive person La Sand is. Is she really a woman? I’m inclined to doubt it.”
Frédéric Chopin



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