Quotes About Chopin's Music

#1. A great artist can really enter the logic of any particular mazurka and fully understand the language of Chopin's music.

Rafal Blechacz

#2. But there was escape, too, even in those days, for there was Whistler living in the grey mists with a faded orange moon. The nocturne transformed itself into dreamy rooms with Chopin's music creating a mood that softened the hard core of self.

Mark Tobey

#3. 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

Frederic Chopin

#4. I liked Bach played the way people expect Chopin to be played, and vice versa.

Eleanor Bron

#5. I've not been an admirer of contemporary music since punk rock went off the boil in 1977, but once a year I'll listen to 'Spiral Scratch' by the Buzzcocks, or 'Hippy Hippy Shake' by the Swinging Blue Jeans. Otherwise, I can put up with Chopin or shakuhachi flute in the background.

Billy Childish

#6. 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.

Frederic Chopin

#7. I cannot work and listen to Wagner at the same time, nor Mahler, nor Beethoven's late quartets. I enjoy listening to Chopin's piano music when I work.

I.M. Pei

#8. I got obsessed with classical music, I got obsessed with Chopin, with playing the piano.

Gary Oldman

#9. I've got great joy from rediscovering Western music. I love Schumann and Chopin, and those amazing symphonies of Bruckner.

John Tavener

#10. Chopin was an invalid, as you know, but his music was volcanic.

Ignacy Jan Paderewski

#11. The music teacher came twice a week to bridge the awful gap between Dorothy and Chopin.

George Ade

#12. Chopin
Two embalmers at work upon a minor poetthe scent of tuberosesAutumn rain.

H.L. Mencken

#13. I do not sing nor play, but I adore music, particularly Chopin. I like him because I cannot understand him.

Mary MacLane

#14. Science fiction long assimilated the notion that any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic (much to its benefit), while fantasy long since assimilated the notion that any sufficiently advanced magic is indistinguishable from technology (much to my boredom).

Hal Duncan

#15. Youth hates age, age loves youth. This means we are born for unhappiness. This means we will keep buying outfits.

Kate Tempest

#16. Liszt's so-called piano music is nothing but Chopin and brandy.

James Huneker

#17. I hadn't understood funeral pyres before, but now I do. It's ghastly to burn someone you love but watching the smoke going into the sky, I think that's rather beautiful now. And I wish Tess could be up in the sky. Somewhere with color and light and air.

Rosamund Lupton

#18. I wonder if anyone else has an ear so tuned and sharpened as I have, to detect the music, not of the spheres, but of earth, subtleties of major and minor chord that the wind strikes upon the tree branches. Have you ever heard the earth breathe?

Kate Chopin

#19. I love music. I have a fondness for Chopin, and I very much like his 'Raindrop Prelude.'

Daniel Tammet

#20. Every age has its beautiful moments.

Albert Einstein

#21. Nothing is more odious than music without hidden meaning.

Frederic Chopin

#22. The cause of freedom, in music as elsewhere, is now very nearly triumphant; but at a time when its adversaries were many and powerful, we can hardly imagine the sacred bridge of liberty kept by a more stalwart trio than Schubert the Armorer, Chopin the Refiner, and Liszt the Thunderer.

Hugh Reginald Haweis

#23. I used to play the piano by listening to it - like Chopin pieces, when I was, like, a little kid - and then the minute my parents got me lessons to read music, I couldn't do it anymore.

Eliza Coupe

#24. Expensive advertising courts us with hints and images. The ordinary kind merely says, Buy.

Mason Cooley

#25. My mother was a very talented pianist, and she was a music teacher who hated to teach music, actually, but she loved to play, so I was brought up with Chopin, Debussy and Mozart.

Peter C. Doherty

#26. England is so surrounded by the boredom of conventionalities, that it is all one to them whether music is good or bad, since they have to hear it from morning till night. For here they have flower-shows with music, dinners with music, sales with music ...

Frederic Chopin

#27. Hats off, gentlemen - a genius! If the mighty autocrat of the north knew what a dangerous enemy threatened him in Chopin's works in the simple tunes of his mazurkas, he would forbid this music. Chopin's works are canons buried in flowers.

Frederic Chopin

#28. 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.

Frederic Chopin

#29. 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!

Frederic Chopin

#30. I love Claw Money. They always send me stuff. I always wear their sweatpants.

Kreayshawn

#31. My private life ... Nobody should care. I think it's weird.

Alison Lohman

#32. Concerts are never real music, you have to give up the idea of hearing in them all the most beautiful things of art.

Frederic Chopin