Frederic Chopin

"Love what you do with all your heart."

"Success is the result of dedication and sacrifice."

"The most beautiful melodies come from the heart."

"Create something that will outlive you."

"Your unique voice is your greatest gift."

"Passion without discipline leads nowhere."

"True freedom is found in artistic expression."

"The beautiful should never be sacrificed for the useful."

"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."

"When you play, never mind who listens to you."

"The human voice is the first and perhaps the most perfect of instruments."

"Find your own voice; don't imitate."

"Compose as if you have something to say, not because you wish to say something."

"My country is where I suffer."

"The majority of mankind is lazy-minded, incapable of thinking, but capable of reading, and therein lies the danger."

"Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life."

"To do a great right, do a little wrong."

"Despair is only for those who see the end beyond all doubt."

"The most perfect technique is that which is not perceived."

"There is nothing in the world that would induce me to compose otherwise than I do."

"Tell your own story, and the truth will follow."

"Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down."

"Passion must be clothed in grace and discipline."

"The piano is a monster that must be tamed."

"Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body."

"One should respect public opinion, but not be enslaved by it."

"Where the words fail, music speaks."

"I need life! life! not death, not this grave in which they wish to bury me."

"The nocturne should be of a plaintive and dreamy character."

"I dream without ceasing; it is as if the machinery of my life were oiled with dreams."