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Frédéric Chopin
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“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 (1810–1849) first seen 1830 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Chopin to Tytus Woyciechowski, 5 October 1830
“I'm glad that the secret is submerged in my heart, that in me is the end of what is for you the beginning. And be glad that you have in me an abyss into which you can cast everything without fear - as if into a second self - because your spirit has long lain there at the very bottom. I keep your letters like a ribbon from a mistress. I have the ribbon; write to me, I'll caress you again in a week.”
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Recorded in: Chopin to Tytus Woyciechowski, 31 August 1830
“No one other than I has read your letter. As always, even now, I carry your letters with me. How blissful it will it be for me, having gone beyond the city walls in May, thinking about my approaching journey, to pull out a letter of yours and assure myself sincerely that you love me, or at least to gaze at the hand and the writing of him, whom only I am able to love!”
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Recorded in: Chopin to Tytus Woyciechowski, 27 March 1830
“Messieurs, I should like to be granted the favour of performing at one of your admirable concerts, and this I beg to ask of you. Trusting, since I lack other qualifications to obtain this, in your goodwill towards artists, I dare to hope that you will greet my request favourably, I have the honour to be, Messieurs, your very humble servant. Frédéric Chopin Cité Bergère, No. 4”
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“My piano has not yet arrived. How did you send it? By Marseilles or by Perpignan? I dream music but I cannot make any because here there are not any pianos . . . in this respect this is a savage country.”
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“I'm a revolutionary, money means nothing to me.”
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Recorded in: Quoted in Arthur Hedley, Chopin (1947).
“I wish I could throw off the thoughts which poison my happiness, but I take a kind of pleasure in indulging them.”
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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 [attain] certain unlimited dexterity... A well formed technique, it seems to me, [is one] that can control and vary a beautiful sound quality.”
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“Time is still the best critic, and patience the best teacher.”
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“Sometimes I can only groan, and suffer, and pour out my despair at the piano!”
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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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Recorded in: original text: "La dernière chose c'est la simplicité. Après avoir epuisé toutes les difficultés, apres avoir joué une immense quantité de notes, et de notes, c'est la simplicité qui sort avec tout son charme, comme le …
“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.”
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“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”
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“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 vigour, peacefully, successfully. May the gift of heaven fall richly upon you”
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Recorded in: As quoted in his letter to his father, dated December 6th 1817
“You already know when I'm writing, so don't be surprised if it's short and dry, because I'm too hungry to write anything fat”
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Recorded in: As quoted in his letter to Jan Bialoblocki, written in Zelazowa Wola and dated back to December 24th 1826
“I have met Rossini, Cherubini, Baillot, etc.—also Kalkbrenner. You would not believe how curious I was about Herz, Liszt, Hiller, etc. — They are all zero beside Kalkbrenner. I confess that I have played like Herz, but would wish to play like Kalkbrenner. If Paganini is perfection, Kalkbrenner is his equal, but in quite another style.”
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Recorded in: His letter to Tytus Woyciechowski in Poturzyn. Paris, 12 December 1831.
“I astonished Kalkbrenner, who at once asked me, was I not a pupil of Field, because I have Cramer's method and Field's touch. (That delighted me.)”
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Recorded in: His letter to Tytus Woyciechowski in Poturzyn. Paris, 12 December 1831.
“Play Mozart in memory of me— and I will hear you.”
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“Concerts are never real music, you have to give up the idea of hearing in them all the most beautiful things of art.”
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“I am cross and depressed, and people bore me with their excessive attentions. I can't breathe, I can't work; I feel alone, alone, alone, although I am surrounded. There are a whole lot of ladies, 70 to 80 year-old lords, but no young folk: they are all out shooting. One can't get out of doors because it has been raining and blowing for several days.”
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“Fingers of steel. Wrist of silk.”
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“[...] mam mój ideał, któremu wiernie, nie mówiąc z nim już pół roku, służę, który mi się śni, na którego pamiątkę stanęło adagio od mojego koncertu, który mi inspirował tego walczyka dziś rano, co ci posyłam.”
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Recorded in: Polish: To Tytus Woyciechowski in Poturzyn (1829-10-03) at Fryderyk Chopin Institute website.
“Idę się umywać, nie całuj mię teraz, bom się jeszcze nie umył. — Ty? chociażbym się olejkami wysmarował bizantyjskimi, nie pocałowałbyś, gdybym ja Ciebie magnetycznym sposobem do tego nie przymusił. Jest jakaś siła w naturze. Dziś Ci się śnić będzie, że mnie całujesz. Muszę Ci oddać za szkaradny sen, jakiś mi dziś w nocy sprowadził.”
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Recorded in: Polish: To Tytus Woyciechowski in Poturzyn (1830-09-04) at Fryderyk Chopin Institute website.
Also quoted by: Fryderyk Chopin (pl)
“Nothing is more beautiful than a good guitar, save perhaps two.”
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Recorded in: Cited—as a "saying of Chopin"–by in Poor Folk in Spain (1922), p. 229.
“How strange! This bed on which I shall lie has been slept on by more than one dying man, but today it does not repel me! Who knows what corpses have lain on it and for how long? But is a corpse any worse than I? A corpse too knows nothing of its father, mother or sisters or Titus. Nor has a corpse a sweetheart. A corpse, too, is pale, like me. A corpse is cold, just as I am cold and indifferent to everything. A corpse has ceased to live, and I too have had enough of life.... Why do we live on through this wretched life which only devours us and serves to turn us into corpses? The clocks in the Stuttgart belfries strike the midnight hour. Oh how many people have become corpses at this moment! Mothers have been torn from their children, children from their mothers - how many plans have come to nothing, how much sorrow has sprung from these depths, and how much relief!... 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. It is therefore right of me to be angry that I was ever born into this world! Why was I not prevented from remaining in a world where I am utterly useless? What good can my existence bring to anyone? … But wait, wait! What's this? Tears? How long it is since they flowed! How is this, seeing that an arid melancholy has held me for so long in its grip? How good it feels - and sorrowful. Sad but kindly tears! What a strange emotion! Sad but blessed. It is not good for one to be sad, and yet how pleasant it is - a strange state...”
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Recorded in: Stuttgart. After 8th September 1831.