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Play Mozart in memory of me.

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

My manuscripts sleep, while I cannot, for I am covered with poultices.

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

I'm a revolutionary, money means nothing to me.

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

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.

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

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

England is a country of pianos, they are everywhere.

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

I really don't know whether any place contains more pianists than Paris, or whether you can find more asses and virtuosos anywhere.

Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on.

Mozart encompasses the entire domain of musical creation,
but I've got only the keyboard in my poor head.

You already know when I'm writing, so don't be surprised if it's short and dry, because I'm too hungry to write anything fat

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

Even in winter it shall be green in my heart.

Nothing is more odious than music without hidden meaning.

Chopin has done for the piano what Schubert has done for the voice.

Here, whatever is not boring is not English.

As long as I have health and strength, I will gladly work all my days.

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

Put all your soul into it, play the way you feel!

Oh, how hard it must be to die anywhere but in one's birthplace.

I shall create a new world for myself.

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!

I wish I could throw off the thoughts which poison my happiness, and yet I take a kind of pleasure in indulging them.

I don't know where there can be so many pianists as in Paris, so many asses and so many virtuosi.

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

As something has involuntarily crept into my head through my eyes,I love to indulge it, even though it may be all wrong.

I don't know how it is, but the Germans are amazed at me and I am amazed at them for finding anything to be amazed about.

Nothing is more beautiful than the sound of the guitar.

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