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 - or sleeplessness - melancholy, indifference - desire for life, and the next instant, desire for death; some kind of sweet peace, some kind of numbness, absent-mindedness.
Sometimes I can only groan, and suffer, and pour out my despair at the piano. - Frederic Chopin
Sometimes I can only groan, and suffer, and pour out my despair at the piano.
- Frederic Chopin
I tell my piano the things I used to tell you - Frederic Chopin
I tell my piano the things I used to tell you
Nothing is more beautiful than a guitar, except, possibly two. - Frederic Chopin
Nothing is more beautiful than a guitar, except, possibly two.
Simplicity is the highest goal, achievable when you have overcome all difficulties. - Frederic Chopin
Simplicity is the highest goal, achievable when you have overcome all difficulties.
Nothing is more odious than music without hidden meaning. - Frederic Chopin
Nothing is more odious than music without hidden meaning.
Even in winter it shall be green in my heart. - Frederic Chopin
Even in winter it shall be green in my heart.
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
The last thing is simplicity. After having gone through all the difficulties, having played an endless number of notes, it is simplicity that matters…
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
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 …
Time is the best of critics; and patience the best of teachers. - Frederic Chopin
Time is the best of critics; and patience the best of teachers.
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