The 20 best quotes by Frederic Chopin

A unique and unrepeatable piano virtuoso. We review the famous quotes of this shy genius.

Frederic Chopin (1810 - 1849) was a famous composer and pianist born in Poland but of French origin, one of the most studied as a representative of musical Romanticism.

The figure of Chopin is recorded, according to many music scholars, as one of the most refined and virtuoso pianists of all time.

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Frederic Chopin's Famous Phrases

With the aim of getting to know this incomparable musician better, we have compiled in today's article the 20 best phrases of Frederic Chopin.

1. There is nothing more hateful than music without hidden meaning.

A reflection on banal music, which Chopin so detested.

2. If I were dumber than I am, I think I would have reached the pinnacle of my career.

Intelligence never lets you feel on the crest of the wave.

3. It is useless to go back over what has been and is no longer.

Going back to outdated relationships or projects is never a good idea.

4. Happiness is ephemeral; certainty is deceptive. Only hesitation is lasting.

Doubt is eternal and, therefore, the only one we can trust blindly.

5. Let me be what I must be, nothing but a piano composer, for this is the only thing I know how to do.

A great display of humility in this phrase by Frederic Chopin.

6. We use sounds in order to make music, as we use words in order to create language.

A parallelism of great formal beauty.

6. Life is an immense dissonance.

Nothing goes as we expect, but it still has a unique melody.

7. When heartaches turn into illnesses, we are lost.

Love-related disorders can be devastating.

8. Every difficulty evaded will later become a ghost that disturbs our rest.

Not facing difficulties makes us weak.

9. I don't like people who don't laugh. They are frivolous people.

Surprising reflection of an excessively transcendental Chopin.

10. Simplicity is the ultimate achievement. After one has played with a large number of notes, it is simplicity that emerges as a reward of art.

On the quality of the music, which is not based on anything other than simplicity.

11. Because I have too much respect for my audience and do not want pieces unworthy of my audience to be distributed on my responsibility under my name.

Reflecting on the distribution of his pieces.

12. I am satisfied with what I have found, I have the best musicians in the world and the best opera in the world.

At that point in his career, Chopin had all the means to make his music sound exceptionally good.

13. Time is the best way to prove who is the wisest and most patient instructor.

Time knows all things and shows all cards.

And here I am, condemned to inaction! It happens to me sometimes that I cannot but sigh and, penetrated with pain, I pour out my despair on the piano.

On his passionate way of understanding life and music.

15. As a rule, the greater the health, the lesser the patience in people's sufferings.

A thought by Chopin that has a certain logic.

16. I am a revolutionary, money means nothing to me.

His view on money, sharp and brilliant.

17. I am not made to give concerts; the public intimidates me, I feel suffocated by their hasty impatience, paralyzed by their curious looks, mute before those unknown physiognomies.

Curious reflection coming from one of the most acclaimed virtuosos in the history of music.

18. Paris responds to everything the Heart desires. One can have fun, be bored, laugh, cry or do whatever one wants without attracting attention, since thousands of people do the same... and each one as he wishes.

About the city that welcomed you.

19. According to general opinion, my interpretation has been characterized by a sonority too weak, or rather too delicate for the taste of Viennese listeners, accustomed to hear artists destroying their instrument [...] No matter; it is impossible that there is not some but, and I prefer this to hearing it said that I play too loudly.

Chopin's phrase about the musical tastes of the people of his time.

20. Chopin is so weak and timid that he can be wounded even by the fold of a rose petal. (George Sand)

Phrase of the French writer Amantine Aurore Lucile Dupin (who used the pseudonym of George Sand), about the extreme fragility of Frederic Chopin.