Frédéric Chopin - Music Quotes

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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.

Frédéric Chopin

Letter to Camille Pleyel:

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.

Frédéric Chopin

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

Frédéric Chopin

After a rest in Edinburgh, where, passing a music-shop, I heard some blind man playing a mazurka of mine...

Frédéric Chopin