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“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 reward of art.”

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

“Sometimes I can only groan, and suffer, and pour out my despair at the piano!”

“The crowd intimidates me, its breath suffocates me. I feel paralyzed by its curious look, and the unknown faces make me dumb.”

“The earth is suffocating... Swear to make them cut me open, so that I won't be buried alive.”

“The last thing is simplicity. After having gone through all the difficulties, having played an endless number of notes, it is simplicity that matters, with all its charm. It is the final seal on Art. Anyone who strives for this to begin with will be disappointed. You cannot begin at the end.”

“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 sounded me and listened as I spat. The first said I was dead, the second that I was dying and the third that I'm going to die.”

“There are certain times when I feel more inspired, filled with a strong power that forces me to listen to my inner voice, and when I feel more need than ever for a Pleyel piano.”

“They want me to give another concert but I have no desire to do so. You cannot imagine what a torture the three days before a public appearance are to me.”

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

“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!”

“Vienna is a handsome, lively city, and pleases me exceedingly.”

“We fell silent and all joking ceased. We gazed mutely into each other's eyes and an intense longing for the fullest avowal of the truth forced us to a confession, requiring no words whatever, or the incommensurable misfortune that weighed upon us. With tears and sobs we sealed a vow to belong to each other alone.”

“When one does a thing, it appears good, otherwise one would not write it. Only later comes reflection, and one discards or accepts the thing. Time is the best censor, and patience a most excellent teacher.”

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

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“Even in winter it shall be green in my heart.”

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“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.”

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“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”

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“I haven't heard anything so great for a long time; Beethoven snaps his fingers at the whole world.”

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“If I were still stupider than I am, I should think myself at the apex of my career; yet I know how much I still lack, to reach perfection; I see it the more clearly now that I live only among first-rank artists and know what each one of them lacks.”

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“It's a huge Carthusian monastery, stuck down between rocks and sea, where you may imagine me, without white gloves or hair curling, as pale as ever, in a cell with such doors as Paris never had for gates.

The cell is the shape of a tall coffin, with an enormous dusty vaulting, a small window...

Bach, my scrawls and waste paper – silence – you could scream – there would still be silence. Indeed, I write to you from a strange place.”

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

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“The Official Bulletin declared that the Poles should be as proud of me as the Germans are of Mozart; obvious nonsense.”

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“Why so many different dishes? Man sinks almost to the level of an animal when eating becomes his chief pleasure.”


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