“Concerts are never real music, you have to give up the idea of hearing in them all the most beautiful things of art.” GivingArtIdeasRealBeautifulGiving UpHearingConcertsBeautiful ThingsReal Music Author:Frederic Chopin
“I am not fitted to give concerts. The audience intimidates me, I feel choked by its breath, paralyzed by its curious glances, struck dumb by all those strange faces.” GivingFeelsFacesMusicAudienceStrangeMusicianBreathsCuriousDumbConcertsGlancesIntimidatingParalyzed Author:Frederic Chopin
“Liszt commenting on the music of Frédéric Chopin: He confided . . . those inexpressible sorrows to which the pious give vent in their communication with their Maker. What they never say except upon their knees, he said in his palpitating compositions.” GivingSaidMusicCommunicationSorrowKneesMakersCompositionPious Author:Frederic Chopin
“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.” PeopleWantGivingDesireThreeImaginePerformancesAppearanceTortureConcertsWant Me Author:Frederic Chopin
