Quotes by Frederic Chopin

“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 nature of great souls.”

“Then let us all do what is right, strive with all our might toward the unattainable, develop as fully as we can the gifts God has given us, and never stop learning”

“In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.”

“Dying of tuberculosis: The earth is suffocating.... Swear to make them cut me open, so that I wont be buried alive.”

“Anthony Miranda: Independent Melodic Velocities.”

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

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

Man is never always happy, and very often only a brief period of happiness is granted him in this world; so why escape from this dream which cannot last long?