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I cannot listen to Beethoven or Mahler or Chopin or Bach when I write because those composers require you stop what you are doing and listen.
— Antonio Damasio
Play Mozart in memory of me.
— Frederic Chopin
It is greater than the stars - that moving procession of human energy; greater than the palpitating earth and the things growing thereon.
— Kate Chopin
She was growing accustomed to like shocks, but she could not keep the mounting color back from her cheeks.
— Kate Chopin
My manuscripts sleep, while I cannot, for I am covered with poultices.
— Frederic Chopin
The earth is suffocating ... Swear to make them cut me open, so that I won't be buried alive.
— Frederic Chopin
You can't go home and listen to Chopin, and just use it.
— Mick Farren
I hope you won't completely forget me.
— Kate Chopin
One who awakens gradually out of a dream, a delicious, grotesque, impossible dream, to feel again the realities pressing into her soul
— Kate Chopin
What shall we do there?" "Climb up the hill to the old fort and look at the little wriggling gold snakes, and watch the lizards sun themselves.
— Kate Chopin
A person can't have everything in this world; and it was a little unreasonable of her to expect it.
— Kate Chopin
Her husband seemed to her now like a person whom she had married without love as an excuse.
— Kate Chopin
She says queer things sometimes in a bantering way that you don't notice at the time and you find yourself thinking about afterward.
— Kate Chopin
I'm a revolutionary, money means nothing to me.
— Frederic Chopin
The Pole listening to Chopin listens to the voice of his whole race.
— Ignacy Jan Paderewski
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
We may be sure that a genius like Mozart, were he born today, would write concertos like Chopin and not like Mozart.
— Robert Schumann
I have owned and played a Steinway all my life. It's the best Beethoven piano. The best Chopin piano. And the best Ray Charles piano. I like it, too.
— Randy Newman
Feeling secure regarding their happiness and welfare, she did not miss them except with an occasional, intense longing.
— Kate Chopin
I haven't heard anything so great for a long time; Beethoven snaps his fingers at the whole world ...
— Frederic Chopin
I love you. Good-by--because I love you.
— Kate Chopin
I play the piano and have been playing since I was 7, mainly classical Chopin, Beethoven, Mozart.
— Kiana Tom
If ever a fusion of two human beings into one has been accomplished on this sphere it was surely their union.
— Kate Chopin
England is a country of pianos, they are everywhere.
— Frederic Chopin
The voice of the sea is seductive, never ceasing, whispering, clamoring, murmuring, inviting the soul to wander in abysses of solitude.
— Kate Chopin
The soul of her youth clamored for its rights; for a share in the world's glory and exultation.
— Kate Chopin
A bird with a broken wing was beating the air above, reeling, fluttering, circling disabled, down, down to the water
— Kate Chopin
The delicious breath of rain was in the air.
— Kate Chopin
I do not sing nor play, but I adore music, particularly Chopin. I like him because I cannot understand him.
— Mary MacLane
Nostalgia, more than anything, gives us the shudder of our own imperfection. This is why with Chopin we feel so little like gods.
— Emil Cioran
I really don't know whether any place contains more pianists than Paris, or whether you can find more asses and virtuosos anywhere.
— Frederic Chopin
She put her arms around me and felt my shoulder blades to see if my wings were strong.
— Kate Chopin
I used to get into the government car and switch on Chopin or someone I liked to hear at the end of a parliamentary day.
— Joan Kirner
The voice of the sea speaks to the soul.
— Kate Chopin
I wish I could throw off the thoughts which poison my happiness, and yet I take a kind of pleasure in indulging them.
— Frederic Chopin
The music teacher came twice a week to bridge the awful gap between Dorothy and Chopin.
— George Ade
Most women are moody and whimsical.
— Kate Chopin
She felt that her speech was voicing the incoherency her thoughts, and stopped abruptly.
— Kate Chopin
Time is the best of critics; and patience the best of teachers.
— Frederic Chopin
She was becoming herself and daily casting aside that fictitious self which we assume like a garment with which to appear before the world.
— Kate Chopin
But she laughed and looked at him with eyes that at once gave him courage to wait and made it torture to wait.
— Kate Chopin
Sometimes I think, not so much am I a pianist, but a vampire. All my life I have lived off the blood of Chopin.
— Arthur Rubinstein
Don't part from me in any ill humor. I never knew you to be out of patience with me before.
— Kate Chopin
A vision of the future like some dim, gaunt monster sometimes appalled her, but luckily to-morrow never comes. Mrs.
— Kate Chopin
I shall create a new world for myself.
— Frederic Chopin
The eyes alone in the baby suggested the man. And
— Kate Chopin
Put all your soul into it, play the way you feel!
— Frederic Chopin
An indescribable oppression, which seemed to generate in some unfamiliar part of her consciousness, filled her whole being with a vague anguish.
— Kate Chopin
I got obsessed with classical music, I got obsessed with Chopin, with playing the piano.
— Gary Oldman
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
Liszt's so-called piano music is nothing but Chopin and brandy.
— James Huneker
I've got great joy from rediscovering Western music. I love Schumann and Chopin, and those amazing symphonies of Bruckner.
— John Tavener
She was fond of her children in an uneven, impulsive way. She would sometimes gather them passionately to her heart; she would sometimes forget them.
— Kate Chopin
Nothing is more beautiful than the sound of the guitar.
— Frederic Chopin
I love music. I have a fondness for Chopin, and I very much like his 'Raindrop Prelude.'
— Daniel Tammet
Nothing is more beautiful than a guitar, except, possibly two.
— Frederic Chopin
He could see plainly that she was not herself. That is, he could not see that she was becoming herself [ ... ].
— Kate Chopin
Oh, how hard it must be to die anywhere but in one's birthplace.
— Frederic Chopin
A certain light was beginning to dawn dimly within her, - the light which, showing the way, forbids it.
— Kate Chopin
Good night. I adore you. Sleep well.
— Kate Chopin
As something has involuntarily crept into my head through my eyes,I love to indulge it, even though it may be all wrong.
— Frederic Chopin
I don't know where there can be so many pianists as in Paris, so many asses and so many virtuosi.
— Frederic Chopin
Goodbye -- Because I love you.
— Kate Chopin
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
Youth is given up to illusions.
— Kate Chopin
Mozart encompasses the entire domain of musical creation,
but I've got only the keyboard in my poor head. — Frederic Chopin
but I've got only the keyboard in my poor head. — Frederic Chopin
[ ... ] the beginning of things, of a world especially is necessarily vague, tangled, chaotic, and exceedingly disturbing.
— Kate Chopin
Who can tell what metals the gods use in forging the subtle bond which we call sympathy, which we might as well call love.
— Kate Chopin
By all the codes which I am acquainted with, I am a devilishly wicked specimen of the sex.
— Kate Chopin
I couldn't help loving you if you were ten times his wife; but so long as I went away from you and kept away I could help telling you so.
— Kate Chopin
But she saw beyond that bitter moment a long procession of years to come that would belong to her absolutely.
— Kate Chopin
Well, for instance, when I left her today, she put her arms around me and felt my shoulder blades, to see if my wings were strong, she said.
— Kate Chopin
She liked then to wander alone into strange and unfamiliar places. She discovered many a sunny, sleepy corner, fashioned to dream in.
— Kate Chopin
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
Don't stir all the warmth out of your coffee; drink it.
— Kate Chopin
Mrs. Pontellier liked to sit and gaze at her fair companion as she might look upon a faultless Madonna.
— Kate Chopin
She had resolved to never take another step backward.
— Kate Chopin
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.
— Frederic Chopin
His coming was in the nature of a welcome disturbance; it seemed to furnish a new direction for her emotions.
— Kate Chopin
You [Chopin] have in your fingers an orchestra of butterflies.
— Adam Mickiewicz