Simplicity is the highest goal, achievable when you have overcome all difficulties.

- Frederic Chopin

The last thing is simplicity. After having gone through all the difficulties, having played an endless number of notes, it is simplicity that matters…

- Frederic Chopin

I tell my piano the things I used to tell you

- Frederic Chopin

Nothing is more odious than music without hidden meaning.

- Frederic Chopin

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 …

- Frederic Chopin

Even in winter it shall be green in my heart.

- Frederic Chopin

Time is the best of critics; and patience the best of teachers.

- Frederic Chopin

Sometimes I can only groan, and suffer, and pour out my despair at the piano.

- Frederic Chopin

Nothing is more beautiful than a guitar, except, possibly two.

- Frederic Chopin