“Simplicity is the highest goal, achievable when you have overcome all difficulties. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art.” Chopin

“I wish I could throw off the thoughts which poison my happiness. And yet I take a kind of pleasure in indulging them.” 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.” – Chopin

“One needs only to study a certain positioning of the hand in relation to the keys to obtain with ease the most beautiful sounds, to know how to play long notes and short notes and to achieve certain unlimited dexterity. A well formed technique, it seems to me, can control and vary a beautiful sound quality.” - Chopin

“I don’t know where there can be so many pianists as in Paris, so many asses and so many virtuosi.” – Chopin