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

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Frederic Chopin was a Polish composer and pianist, renowned for his unique piano compositions and virtuoso playing. His music deeply reflects his emotional world and has had a profound impact on piano music in the following era. more

“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.”

Life Kind Philosophy Dream Desire Next My Own Sweet Gay Anxiety Folks Indifference Instant Melancholy Absent Numbness Sleeplessness Absent Mindedness

Book:Chopin's Letters

Source: Chopin's Letters

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

Life Mean Philosophy Money Music Life Philosophy Revolutionary Composer Pianist

Author:Frederic Chopin

“All the same it is being said everywhere that I played too softly, or rather, too delicately for people used to the piano-pounding of the artists here.”

People Said Used Artist Performances Piano Concerts

Book:Chopin's Letters

Source: Chopin's Letters

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

People Should Proud Obvious Officials Nonsense Concerts Proud Of Me

Book:Chopin's Letters

Source: Chopin's Letters

“Bach is like an astronomer who, with the help of ciphers, finds the most wonderful stars . . . Beethoven embraced the universe with the power of his spirit . . . I do not climb so high. A long time ago I decided that my universe will be the soul and heart of man.”

Men Heart Long Soul Helping Spirit Universe Stars Wonderful Long Time Decided Climbs Long Time Ago Astronomers Ciphers

Author:Frederic Chopin

“Nothing is more odious than music without hidden meaning.”

Hidden Meaning

Author:Frederic Chopin

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

May Eye Indulge Through My Eyes

Book:Chopin's Letters

Source: Chopin's Letters

“A surfeiting of terror soon made terror a cliché.”

Made Terror

Book:Richard Matheson Thrillers: I Am Legend, Someone is Bleeding, Ride the Nightmare, Fury on Sunday

Source: Richard Matheson Thrillers: I Am Legend, Someone is Bleeding, Ride the Nightmare, Fury on Sunday

“What would a Mohammedan vampire do if faced with a cross?”

Ifs Crosses Vampire

Book:I Am Legend

Source: I Am Legend

“In a typical desperation for quick answers, easily understood, people had turned to primitive worship as the solution. With less than success. Not only had they died as quickly as the rest of the people, but they had died with terror in their hearts, with a mortal dread flowing in their very veins.”

People Heart Answers Worship Solutions Understood Died Terror Mortals Dread Primitive Typical Desperation Veins

Book:I Am Legend

Source: I Am Legend

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