1. Let the music speak for itself and do not impose subjective assumptions on the audience. ——Chopin
2. After I die, please take my heart back to the motherland. I will sleep underground in the motherland. ——Chopin
3. Love the motherland above all else. ——Chopin
4. Motherland, I will always be loyal to you and devote myself to you. I will always sing and fight for you with the sound of my piano. ——Chopin
5. I would like my works to become war hymns.
6. Simplicity has exerted all its charm. It is the symbol of art reaching the highest realm.
7. Let the music speak for itself and do not impose subjective assumptions on the audience.
8. A tyrant gives orders while others beg for mercy. Source: Nocturne in F-sharp minor, Op. 48, No. 2
9. planned to call the piece “Variations” But settled on Berceuse - literally, “cradle song” -Source: Berceuse in D-flat Major, Op·57
10. To Madame Camille Pleyel. (Marie Camille Moke - fickle flame of the candle) Source: Nocturnes, Op·9
11. ? ? Source: Fantaisie-Impromptu
12. I congratulate you Mummy, on your name-day! May the heavens fulfil what I feel in my heart That you should always be well and happy, and Have the longest and most satisfactory life. Source: Polonaise in G minor, KK 889
13. 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. Source: Souvenir de Paganini
14. The left hand unisono with the right hand are gossiping after the March Source: Piano Sonata No· 2- Finale: Presto
15. I have composed something new that I do not know how to name. Source: Polonaise-Fantasie in A- flat Major, Op·61
16. I'm a revolutionary, money means nothing to me.
17. I cannot compose anything, I am closer to the coffin than the marriage bed. - from Glasgow
18. Dying of tuberculosis: The earth is suffocating.... Swear to make them cut me open, so that I won't be buried alive.