The Pole listening to Chopin listens to the voice of his whole race.

A man is not necessarily a master because he happened to compose two or three centuries ago. Let us beware of the worship of mere antiquity.

Is there anything more true than human pain? Is there anything more sincere than the cry for help from those who suffer? Only a great wave of mankind's pity can surmount an immense wave of human misery?

Change follows change in us, almost without transition; we pass from blissful rapture to sobbing woe; a single step divides our sublimest ecstasies from the darkest depth of spiritual despondency.

I established a certain standard of behavior, that, during my playing, there must be no talking.

I cannot imagine a genuinely happy home without music in it.

The culture of any country is gauged first by its progress in art.