England is a country of pianos, they are everywhere.

To be a great composer requires immense experience... One acquires this by listening not only to other men's work, but above all to one's own!

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

I wish I could throw off the thoughts which poison my happiness, but I take a kind of pleasure in indulging them.

As long as I have health and strength, I will gladly work all my days.

A strange adventure befell me while I was playing my Sonata in B flat minor before some English friends. I had played the Allegro and the Scherzo more or less correctly. I was about to attack the March when suddenly I saw arising from the body of my piano those cursed creatures which had appeared to me one lugubrious night at the Chartreuse. I had to leave for one instant to pull myself together after which I continued without saying anything.

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