Occupation: Composer Death: October 17, 1849
Oh, how miserable it is to have no one to share your sorrows and joys, and, when your heart is heavy, to have no soul to whom you can pour out your w….
I wish I could throw off the thoughts which poison my happiness, but I take a kind of pleasure in indulging them..
Man is never always happy, and very often only a brief period of happiness is granted him in this world; so why escape from this dream which cannot l….
Sometimes I can only groan, and suffer, and pour out my despair at the piano..
Bach is an astronomer, discovering the most marvellous stars. Beethoven challenges the universe. I only try to express the soul and the heart of man..
Nothing is more beautiful than a guitar, except, possibly two..
Even in winter it shall be green in my heart..
Bach is like an astronomer who, with the help of ciphers, finds the most wonderful stars . . . Beethoven embraced the universe with the power of his ….
Simplicity is the highest goal, achievable when you have overcome all difficulties..
Time is the best of critics; and patience the best of teachers..
I am not fitted to give concerts. The audience intimidates me, I feel choked by its breath, paralyzed by its curious glances, struck dumb by all thos….
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 rewa….
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 - ….
Nothing is more odious than music without hidden meaning..
The last thing is simplicity. After having gone through all the difficulties, having played an endless number of notes, it is simplicity that matters….
It is dreadful when something weighs on your mind, not to have a soul to unburden yourself to. You know what I mean. I tell my piano the things I use….
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 s….
Play Mozart in memory of me - and I will hear you..
Put all your soul into it, play the way you feel!.
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!.
Simplicity is the final achievement..