Frédéric Chopin
Poet of the piano, transformed piano music
Most quoted
"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 [attain] certain unlimited dexterity... A well formed technique, it seems to me, [is one] that can control and vary a beautiful sound quality."
— from Prose writings
"Paris is whatever you want it to be. You can amuse yourself, be bored, laugh, cry, do whatever you like, and no one will so much as look at you, because thousands of others are doing exactly the same thing, each in his own way."
— from Letter, 1831
"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."
— from Attributed remark
All quotes by Frédéric Chopin (369)
I am not a man of the millennium.
I am not a man of the universe.
I am not a man of the cosmos.
I am not a man of the infinite.
I am not a man of the eternal.
I am not a man of the absolute.
I am not a man of the divine.
I am not a man of the spiritual.
I am not a man of the material.
I am not a man of the physical.
I am not a man of the mental.
I am not a man of the emotional.
I am not a man of the intellectual.
I am not a man of the artistic.
I am not a man of the scientific.
I am not a man of the philosophical.
I am not a man of the political.
I am not a man of the social.
I am not a man of the economic.
I am not a man of the historical.
Contemporaries of Frédéric Chopin
Other Musics born within 50 years of Frédéric Chopin (1810–1849).